- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:36:44 +0000
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- CC: wai-xtech@w3.org, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Hallo Steve -- > Hi Philip, > >> Why is 'role="presentation"' preferable to 'role="layout"' here ? >> I would have thought that the latter would be more transparent >> to authors. > > because ther is no role="layout" defined as far as I am aware, but > there is a role="presentation" defined in WAI-ARIA [1] and this > includes as one of its example use cases > "A layout table and/or any of its associated cells, rows, etc." > > [1]http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#presentation > > > regards > stevef I could see that this would be very important if HTML 5 were defined to use solely ARIA roles, but as far as I can tell from reading the draft specification at http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/ HTML 5 makes no reference to ARIA whatsoever, and it is therefore (currently) open to HTML to define its own roles. Whether this would be beneficial is clearly open to debate, but in the absence of a normative reference to http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/ in the HTML 5 draft specification the possible values for ROLE are still open. Philip TAYLOR
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