- From: Dannii <curiousdannii@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:21:39 +1000
- To: "Justin James" <j_james@mindspring.com>
- Cc: "James Craig" <jcraig@apple.com>, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>, "Leif Halvard Silli" <lhs@malform.no>, elharo@metalab.unc.edu, public-html@w3.org, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com> wrote: > > I think that most HTML authors typically intend for a presentational class > to only be used in one semantic role, unless it is generic (like someone > using a class with red, large text to mean "important" and "header" at the > same time). I think it would be fairly safe to allow the CSS to indicate the > semantic role of a definition for that reason, so long as we allow it to be > accessed via the DOM *and* specified in the HTML itself. > > J.Ja > If someone were consistently applying the same aria roles to the same classes it would be more efficient to combine them together. Lots of identical attributes is just leaving more room for mistakes. If separation is a problem then the CSS syntax could be used without actually putting aria data in the stylesheets.
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