- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 06:09:43 -0700
- To: annevk@opera.com
- Cc: raman@google.com, ian@hixie.ch, connolly@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
Anna - you dont need to explain ARIA to me;-) However I assert that from an authoring perspective it is simply bizarre to have to say the same thing differently in different contexts. Web users should not have to take history lessons in how the Web was kluged Anne van Kesteren writes: > On Thu, 22 May 2008 01:10:46 +0200, T.V Raman <raman@google.com> wrote: > > The following is simply bizarre and should be rationalized > > between now and last call: > > > > <input type=checkbox checked> > > > > vs > > > > <span role="aria-checkbox" aria-checked="true"> > > The former represents a checkbox control and the latter represents nothing > though it fakes a checkbox control towards assistive technology. As such, > they are quite distinct. My understanding is that we need the latter > because designing your own user interface for the former is currently near > impossible leading authors to reimplement the control using a span or div > element. In order to make that accessible they need a low level > accessibility API to expose the relevant information to assistive > technology. > > > (It's role="checkbox" by the way, no need for a prefix there.) > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > <http://annevankesteren.nl/> > <http://www.opera.com/> -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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