- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 14:59:36 -0500
- To: Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>
- Cc: Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, WAI XTech <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>, Daniel Weck <daniel.weck@gmail.com>, "Ted O'Connor" <eoconnor@apple.com>
Do I understand that you correctly? If our intent is a general feature for the whole world, than you say "Put it in HTML?" If our intent is a feature for accessibility, would you say "ARIA is OK?" Is this correct? Is this your view? Just walking througha clarification here ... Janina Alexander Surkov writes: > It looks like I should comment too. I think that if aria-describedat is a > nice feature for any element and all users can benefit of it then it should > be part of HTML5 spec. > Thanks. > Alex. > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:04 AM, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca> wrote: > > > >> I think as well that your characterization of "dissent" w.r.t. Gecko and > >> Blink > >> is, shall I say, somewhat exaggerated, but (again) I think we should ask > >> these > >> actors directly, and neither you nor I assume anything. > >> > > > > Just to be clear, then, I officially object/dissent to the language "User > > agents should provide a device-independent mechanism to allow a user to..." > > used anywhere in the ARIA spec, because I feel the user agent directly > > providing to all users a user-level feature based on an ARIA attribute is a > > radical departure from the rest of the ARIA spec. > > > > Resolutions I would be happy with include: > > * Change the language so that aria-describedat is mapped to native > > accessibility APIs only, like the rest of ARIA > > * Or, make it part of HTML5 and take ARIA out of the name > > > > > > -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
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