- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:44:42 -0400
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Hi, Simon- Simon Pieters wrote (on 10/4/2007 1:19 PM): > > I've updated the spec and the test cases to remove support for html:role > altogether and add support for role="" and aria-foo="" on SVG elements. > > http://simon.html5.org/specs/aria-proposal > http://simon.html5.org/test/aria/ > > At some point perhaps the aaa:foo="" attributes can be removed as well. We haven't yet talked about it in the SVG WG, so I don't want to commit to anything specific. But we do want to make it work, and our ears are open. I see it as a goal that role would work in SVG in as similar a manner as possible to (X)HTML; this includes syntax, for ease of authoring. At the same time, there are several details that would need to be worked out, not the least of which is that SVG and HTML5 have very different approaches to namespaces. Can you tell me how your document relates to the XHTML2 WG's Role Attribute Module [1]? That spec states, "If the host language does not incorporate the XHTML Role Attribute Module attribute into its own namespace, the document MUST contain an xmlns declaration for the XHTML Role Attribute Module namespace." Also, are you planning to support the idea of Compact URIs [3], or do you deal with that in some other way? Note that I'm not trying to be political here, and that I what I value most is getting this functionality working in SVG (and HTML), but we need to know everything that's on the table, and to be respectful of the hard work that everyone has done here. (Note, for those readers not familiar with ARIA, please read [3] and [4] for background.) [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-role/ [2] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2007/ED-xhtml-role-20070905/#sec_3.1. [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/aria-role/ [4] http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/ARIA:_Accessible_Rich_Internet_Applications/Relationship_to_HTML_FAQ Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Staff Contact, SVG, CDF, and WebAPI
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