- From: David Bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:55:27 -0400
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- CC: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Hi Steve, all Today I again skimmed over http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/HTML5/aria-html5-proposal.html What does the text "User agents are required to implement WAI-ARIA semantics on all HTML elements" mean? In Firefox for example, we map HTML to accessibility API. We also specifically map ARIA to accessibility API. But we don't currently do any mapping from HTML to ARIA so I don't know if we "implement WAI-ARIA semantics on all HTML elements". I find this confusing. Aside: Additionally, in Firefox we generally allow ARIA to trump HTML because we realize that if we can't trust web developers to use ARIA properly, then their web app probably isn't going to be accessible anyways. This has been the general sentiment in the UIA-TF meetings but we haven't met in a long while and only two browsers have representation. cheers, David
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