- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:51:18 -0500
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Lars Gunther <gunther@keryx.se>, Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote: > Well, HTML doesn't allow ARIA yet, so that's fine, isn't it? ;-) It would > also be interesting to check whether people actually use CSS in order to > misuse <h1> ... I'm sure they do. As I said, though, we can't prevent it in CSS, as that language is too low-level. > I don't know if a handful of pages can be used to formed an opinion. But if > we had info about a handful of UAs that support ARIA, about whether they > always let ARIA over-rule the default semantics, then that would definitely > be helpful. A handful? That's half a million. Granted, that's a tiny fraction of the pages actually present on the web, but that's what sampling is for. > I think simple rules are better. Why don't you agree? Because that's wrong. ^_^ Simpler is better, but "better" is not "good". There are many things that feed into whether or not a rule is good, and these can override "simple". In this case, though, the route that HTML5 takes - "You're allowed to use ARIA according to this table." - is relatively simple too. Simpler for everyone than having ATs try to puzzle out whether it's better for users to treat <h1 role=button> as a button, a heading, or both. ~TJ
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