- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:19:45 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org, public-pfwg-comments@w3.org
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Christophe Strobbe wrote: > At 07:47 25/03/2009, Ian Hickson wrote: > > ARIA has a lot of attributes, all but one of which are prefixed with > > the string "aria-". Is there any chance we could also prefix role="" > > with "aria-", as in aria-role=""? I understand that in some host > > languages, the attribute has other purposes as well, but it would be > > useful if, in the host languages where that isn't the case, the > > attribute was prefixed. It would keep all the attributes together in > > indexes and tables in implementations, it would make it easier for > > authors to see their accessibility API work, and it would highlight > > the link between the various attributes. It would also allow ARIA to > > be used in vocabularies that already have a role="" attribute (aria-* > > attributes are far less likely to already exist than role=""). > > I thought this was because the role attribute wasn't meant to be > constrained to WAI-ARIA. The attribute is defined at > http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-role/ (working draft). Is this a proposal to > separate WAI-ARIA's use of the role attribute from other uses? The role="" attribute as used in WAI-ARIA already seems to be split from the XHTML2WG's role="" attribute. This was just a proposal to rename it for consistency with the other ARIA attributes. However, it has been pointed out to me off-list that it is too late, since we already have numerous implementations of this feature. So please disregard my suggestion. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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