8620 2010-01-04 10:43:47 +0000 No concept of interoperability beyond the site 2010-10-04 14:57:21 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified PC Windows NT RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/dom.html#embedding-custom-non-visible-data a11y P2 normal --- 1 gez.lemon ian ian laura.lee.carlson mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 30369 0 gez.lemon 2010-01-04 10:43:47 +0000 This could be really useful and a great accessibility feature, but as there is no concept of interoperability beyond the site (as it is site bespoke) then we need to ensure that this kind of data is readable by the AT and maybe even the semantics of the interaction expressed in some way. 30916 1 ian 2010-01-11 11:33:23 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: The whole point of this feature is to allow scripts to store per-node data that _isn't_ exposed to the user. The right tool for exposing any constructed semantics is ARIA. 31811 2 cooper 2010-02-11 17:26:33 +0000 Per the proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Jan/0245.html, the HTML A11Y TF does not plan to formally work on this issue at this time. This does not mean the TF has no interest in it, but does not have immediate plans to work on it. The TF may review the issue in the future.