This is an archived snapshot of W3C's public bugzilla bug tracker, decommissioned in April 2019. Please see the home page for more details.

Bug 10467 - provide headings in the WAI-ARIA section of the spec to make it easier to understand
Summary: provide headings in the WAI-ARIA section of the spec to make it easier to und...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P1 major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y, aria
Depends on:
Blocks: 10066
  Show dependency tree / graph
 
Reported: 2010-08-27 14:19 UTC by steve faulkner
Modified: 2010-12-14 17:46 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

See Also:

Attachments

Description steve faulkner 2010-08-27 14:19:10 UTC 
consider providing subsections with headings in the WAI-ARIA section of the HTML5 spec, that make it much clear which inofrmation is directed at aithors/implementors/conformance checkers 
for example see: http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/HTML5/aria-html5-proposal.html
Comment 1 steve faulkner 2010-08-27 14:21:30 UTC 
again without typos

consider providing subsections with headings in the WAI-ARIA section of the
HTML5 spec that make it much clearer which inofrmation is directed at
authors/implementors/ and conformance checkers 
for example see:
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/HTML5/aria-html5-proposal.html
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-07 17:32:01 UTC 
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: It seems pretty clear already. There's only a few paragraphs that apply to only one or the other, and they are already marked up with class=impl, so they get hidden when in author mode.
Comment 3 Martin Kliehm 2010-12-14 17:46:55 UTC 
The bug-triage sub-team thinks this is important, but does not require the attention of the whole task force as the ARIA mapping sub-team is able to deal with it and take the appropriate steps.

@Ian, we believe it's a matter of invisible meta information: in this regard classes are like @summary. Headings provide a clear structure that is accessible for screenreaders and visible for all users, therefore they are preferable. Classes are machine readable, and filters provide viewing modes, but they are no alternatives to structure.