Support for WAI-ARIA validation...

Hi!

The past couple of evenings I have been trying to implement
experimental support for WAI-ARIA validation in the validator with the
ambition to come up with something that:

a) provides document authors with a tool to check WAI-ARIA markup and
b) enables authors to continue checking documents containing WAI-ARIA
attributes.

Before doing more work in this direction I would be interested in
hearing ideas on the "right" way to do this. I have based my
experiments on the extended DTD:s that Steve Faulkner created.

1. From a user perspective it would be nice to have a "Validate
WAI-ARIA (experimental)" checkbox to enable validation. Another option
would be to just add the set of DTD:s to the dropdown menu that
already exists. What do you think?

I talked to some developers I know and they would like to have the
ckeckbox and argued that WAI-ARIA should be selected as default. The
reason was that their customers were likely to check what they
delivered and they were reluctant to start using WAI-ARIA stuff if the
validator was likely to hit them back with an error (which may be a
reason to redesign how validation results are presented).


2. Would a patch for the above be accepted or is there work being done
elsewhere in this direction?


Regards,

Peter Krantz

Received on Wednesday, 8 April 2009 21:27:47 UTC