- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:22:30 +0200
- To: "Doug Schepers" <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:44:42 +0200, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote: > 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. Ok. > 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. Ok. The current proposal is to have the syntax: <div role="checkbox" aria-checked="true"> ...in HTML. > Can you tell me how your document relates to the XHTML2 WG's Role > Attribute Module [1]? I don't really understand that specification. So I can't comment on how they are related. > 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." It does. I'm not sure I understand what it implies. > Also, are you planning to support the idea of Compact URIs [3], or do > you deal with that in some other way? It's not clear to me what CURIEs are supposed to solve. > 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. Yes, makes sense. > (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 -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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