RE: WAI ARIA on mobile

Victor,

You mention that these platforms don't support ARIA landmarks.  I'm
guessing these platforms don't support ARIA at all yet.  Right?

David Todd
IBM Human Ability & Accessibility Center


wai-xtech-request@w3.org wrote on 07/21/2009 06:33:10 PM:

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> RE: WAI ARIA on mobile
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> Victor Tsaran
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> to:
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> Boland Jr., Frederick E., w3c-wai-pf
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> 07/21/2009 06:36 PM
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> wai-xtech-request@w3.org
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> wai-xtech
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> Two things:
> 1. S60 and Safari, which are the only two fully accessible browsers on
> Nokia and IPhone platforms do not yet support ARIA landmarks because
> they are not exposed by the Webkit, an engine that powers both browsers.
> Neither IPhone's Voiceover nor Nokia's Talks and Mobilespeak understand
> ARIA landmarks even if they were available.
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> Regards,
> Victor
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wai-xtech-request@w3.org [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Boland Jr., Frederick E.
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 1:11 PM
> To: w3c-wai-pf@w3.org
> Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org
> Subject: FW: WAI ARIA on mobile
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> Fyi for consideration and discussion
> Best, Tim Boland NIST
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Phil Archer
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:27 AM
> To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Cc: Shawn Henry; Henny Swan
> Subject: WAI ARIA on mobile
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> Greetings from Mobile Land...
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> One of the participants in our Introduction to W3C Mobile Web Best
> Practices course [1], Jeff Van Campen of the London Web Standards Group
> [2], raised this issue on the discussion forum. As that forum isn't
> public, I'm copying his mail here as I don't know the answer and I'm
> interested to know!
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> === Jeff's message begins===
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> I was at WordCamp UK over the weekend (along with fellow Mobile Best
> Practice students Laura Kalbag and Gicela Morales).
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> As a part of a hacking session Laura, myself and a few other WordPresser
> were looking at modifying Kubrick, the default WordPress theme, to work
> in a mobile context.
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> One of the issues we ran into is that Kubrick includes WAI-ARIA roles as
> of WordPress 2.8.
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> As we were working, we removed them, as this made validation easier.
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> I understand that WAI-ARIA isn't supported on any mobile browsers yet,
> but I'd like to add them to the code for two reasons:
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> 1. So that the code is future proof
> 2. So that they are discoverable by people examining the code, who may
> not know about WAI-ARIA
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> That brings me to two questions:
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> 1. Does anyone know of any issues with WAI-ARIA roles in existing mobile
> browsers?
> 2. Is it likely that WAI-ARIA will be included as a module in a future
> version of XHTML Basic?
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> === ends ===
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/2009/03/mobitrain_course_description.html
> [2] http://londonwebstandards.org/
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> --
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> Phil Archer
> W3C Mobile Web Initiative
> http://www.w3.org/Mobile
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> http://philarcher.org
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