- From: David Bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:17:47 -0400
- To: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
- CC: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On 30/09/10 12:18 PM, Joseph Scheuhammer wrote: > and this did not make it to the list. > > On 30/09/10 10:55 AM, David Bolter wrote: >> What does the text "User agents are required to implement WAI-ARIA >> semantics on all HTML elements" mean? > > I think it means something like: where no ARIA attributes have been > given in the markup, and there's just "raw" html5, then here are the > default ARIA semantics for each of those elements. For example, an > <a> would have an implicit ARIA role of "link". Right "implicit" is the key here. I hope nobody assumes any browser will actually automatically modify the DOM to include ARIA semantics. Cheers, David
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