- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:53:48 +0100
- To: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
- Cc: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Moving beyond the summary attribute dispute to something I consider much more important. ARIA integration in HTML 5, to date there is no mention of ARIA in the HTML 5 spec, I understand that the editor is waiting for ARIA last call comments before proceeding, but there is already 1 complete implementation in IE 8 and 1 pretty much complete implementation in Firefox, while many of the features of HTML 5 have not been implemented in any browsers as yet, so i don't understand why work cannot start. One lesson we can take from the summary attribute, is that in order to progress with ARIA we need a modified process. summary is one attribute, which has taken up countless hours of peoples time. ARIA has 60 odd attributes and a role attribute with 60 odd values. If we (the html working group) deal with ARIA the same way as the summary attribute, it will be unworkable. thoughts? -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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