Re: @required and @disabled - strong or weak ? (was RE: Does the HTML5 required attribute have the same accessibility affect as aria-required for an ARIA defined widget?)

+1 to that. 

> On May 9, 2014, at 7:38, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> If required is absent then aria-required should be allowed to override it. We also need this for backward compatibility to older browsers which do not support HTML5. I don't want to break existing code because HTML5 decided to enforce a host language semantic where the author *chose to* override it. 
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> I agree that <input type="text" required aria-required="true:> is redundant but it harms nothing.
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> The spec. states that  <input type="text" required aria required="false"> is invalid. I agree. required does not exist in HTML4 and this conflicts with the host language semantics and there are no backward compatibility issues with this. This is already covered by the spec. 
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> So, the net is although HTML5 has some implied semantics wrt the absence of a boolean attribute we have backward compatibility issues we must continue to support. ... and at the end of the day I have NEVER seen this to be an issue. 
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> Rich
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> Rich Schwerdtfeger
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> <graycol.gif>James Craig ---05/08/2014 06:11:40 PM---On May 8, 2014, at 4:06 PM, James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com> wrote: > There is a huge backwa
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> From:	James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
> To:	James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com>
> Cc:	John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, "Gunderson, Jon R" <jongund@illinois.edu>, "w3c-wai-pf@w3.org WAI-PFWG" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, WAI XTech <wai-xtech@w3.org>
> Date:	05/08/2014 06:11 PM
> Subject:	Re: @required and @disabled  - strong or weak ? (was RE: Does the  HTML5 required attribute have the same accessibility  affect as aria-required  for an ARIA defined widget?)
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> On May 8, 2014, at 4:06 PM, James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com> wrote:
> There is a huge backwards-compatibility argument to allowing <input type="text" aria-required="true"> to act as a required field to the AT APIs.
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> The same argument applies to <input type="text" required aria-required="true"> and no one is opposed to allowing authors this redundancy for the sake of backwards-compatibility.
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