ISSUE-14
aria-role
Integration of WAI-ARIA roles into HTML5
- State:
- OPEN
- Product:
- HTML 5 spec
- Raised by:
- Gregory Rosmaita
- Opened on:
- 2007-11-10
- Description:
## Proposals 1. bring xhtml role attribute into HTML 5 * Simon Pieters, Opera - http://simon.html5.org/specs/aria-proposal * Simon Pieters ARIA Proposal email post - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Sep/0516.html * Aaron M Leventhal, ARIA in HTML -- a new FAQ, and a proposal - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Sep/0436.html 2. have an aria attribute ## ARIA Joint Working Group Sessions * ARIA Joint Working Group Sessions (PF, HTML, XHTML2, SVG) * Joint Meeting on ARIA (17 October 2007) - http://www.w3.org/2007/10/17-aria-minutes.html * Joint Meeting on ARIA (31 October 2007)- http://www.w3.org/2007/10/31-aria-minutes.html * Joint Meeting on ARIA (7 November 2007) - http://www.w3.org/2007/11/06-aria-minutes.html * Joint Meeting on ARIA (10 November 2007) - http://www.w3.org/2007/11/10-html-wg-minutes#item01 ## Emails * Al Gilman, Opening thoughts on WAI-ARIA in HTML5 - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Jul/0903.html * Robert Burns, default role values for HTML elements and built-in accessibility - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Jul/0905.html ## Links * Roles for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA Roles) Working Draft - http://www.w3.org/TR/aria-role/ * ESW HTML Issue Wiki has a page concerning ARIA support at large - http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/ARIAIntegration * Ian Hickson discusses role support on Mozilla's bug tracker - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391713#c10 * ARIA: Accessible Rich Internet Applications (Mozilla Dev document) - http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/ARIA:_Accessible_Rich_Internet_Applications#Future_of_ARIA * ARIA FAQ from Mozilla's Developer Center - http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/ARIA:_Accessible_Rich_Internet_Applications/Relationship_to_HTML_FAQ#I_want_to_use_text.2Fhtml_with_ARIA_and_avoid_declaring_namespaces_--_what_are_the_current_workarounds.3F * ARIA Support Buy-In from Vendors: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/ARIA:_Accessible_Rich_Internet_Applications/Relationship_to_HTML_FAQ#Who_supports_ARIA.3F * Henri Sivonen, Built-in Accessibility Roles in HTML5 - http://hsivonen.iki.fi/html5-roles/ ## Examples & Tests * Illinois Center for Information Technology Accessibility (at UIUC) ARIA Test Pages: http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/ * ARIA Best Practices QA Test Matrix Tests: http://html4all.org/wiki/index.php/ARIATestTests * Simon Pieters' ARIA Tests (supplement to SP's ARIA proposal) - http://simon.html5.org/test/aria/ * Mozilla's Test/Example Matrix - http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/ARIA:_Accessible_Rich_Internet_Applications#Landmark_Roles_from_XHTML_role_attribute_module * Rich Schwerdtfeger's Drag'n'Drop example (xhtml version with role, and aria-) - attached as zipped archive to http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Nov/0168.html * "Introducing AxsJAX -- Access-Enabling AJAX" - http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/11/introducing-axsjax-access-enabling-ajax.html- Related Actions Items:
- ACTION-8 on Michael Cooper to Discuss with PFWG role attribute vs aria attribute - due 2008-02-21, closed
- ACTION-9 on Michael Cooper to Discuss UML tools with DanC - due 2007-11-30, closed
- ACTION-11 on Dan Connolly to Show how <div aria="something"> works with URI based extensibility - due 2008-03-13, closed
- ACTION-23 on Joshue O Connor to coordinate tests using ARIA - due 2008-07-31, open
- ACTION-30 on Gregory Rosmaita to Report back after 11-30 meeting on ARIA syntax - due 2007-12-06, closed
- Related emails:
- Requesting some issue guidance on ARIA (from shawn@db79.com on 2008-05-22)
- {minutes} HTML WG issue-tracking telcon 2008-04-10/11 (from mike@w3.org on 2008-04-11)
- {minutes} 2008-04-03 HTML WG telcon (from mike@w3.org on 2008-04-04)
- minutes HTML WG weekly 21 Feb (from connolly@w3.org on 2008-03-09)
- {minutes} HTML WG teleconference 2008-01-24 (from mike@w3.org on 2008-01-25)
- dual [sic] approach to ARIA embedding [was: Re: upcoming ARIA publicatoins, test coordination (ISSUE-14)] (from alfred.s.gilman@IEEE.org on 2008-01-23)
- Re: upcoming ARIA publicatoins, test coordination (ISSUE-14) (from connolly@w3.org on 2008-01-23)
- ISSUE-14 (aria-role): Integration of WAI-ARIA roles into HTML5 [HTML 5 spec] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2007-11-10)
Related notes:
2007-11-10 14:45:39: SPM: Gregory, I created a new section for the joint WG sessions because it seems like many proposals are discussed not just a specific one. Thanks for adding this though... I'm sitting in a meeting on ARIA-Role and trying to update the issue as I go. [Shawn Medero]
2007-11-10 15:30:22: thank you shawn - we need to ensure linkbacks to both issue pages, then [Gregory J. Rosmaita] [Gregory Rosmaita]
2008-04-10 23:18:10: Henri Sivonen just wrote another piece on ARIA/HTML5 that touches on roles quite a bit: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/aria-html5-bis/ [Shawn Medero]
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