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Bug 11806 - Confirm whether "aria-" should be stripped from properties
Summary: Confirm whether "aria-" should be stripped from properties
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: ARIA
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core AAM (show other bugs)
Version: 1.0
Hardware: PC All
: P1 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Bolter
QA Contact: ARIA UA Implementors
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Reported: 2011-01-19 14:24 UTC by Andi Snow-Weaver
Modified: 2011-01-21 16:43 UTC (History)
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Description Andi Snow-Weaver 2011-01-19 14:24:03 UTC 
Comment from James:

5.5. State and Property Mapping
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-implementation/#mapping_state-property

"""
6. For forward compatibility with new WAI-ARIA properties in future versions, user agents SHOULD expose all properties not in these tables with a text string, removing the "aria-" prefix from the name. For example, aria-foo="bar" would be exposed with a text string foo=bar, since aria-foo is not a currently known WAI-ARIA property.
"""

It seems like a really bad idea to change the attribute key by removing "aria-". Even if the browser doesn't recognize it, these DOM attributes should be exposed as exact key/value pairs. Suggest striking everything after "tables with a text string."
Comment 1 Andi Snow-Weaver 2011-01-21 16:43:37 UTC 
This is already implemented in both IE and FF.