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Bug 9437 - change ARIA section title and add extra text about use of ARIA
Summary: change ARIA section title and add extra text about use of ARIA
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Keywords: a11y, a11ytf, NE, WGDecision
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Reported: 2010-04-06 22:02 UTC by steve faulkner
Modified: 2011-04-08 20:17 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description steve faulkner 2010-04-06 22:02:48 UTC
The HTML5 spec currently refers to ARIA as
"Annotations for assistive technology products (ARIA)"

This is innacurate. While the primary prupose at this time is to provide accessibility information to assistive technology, it is not intended as its exclusive purpose, as the WAI-ARIA spec states:

"The WAI-ARIA specification neither requires or forbids user agents from enhancing native presentation and interaction behaviors on the basis of WAI-ARIA markup. Even mainstream user agents might choose to expose metadata or navigational features directly or via user-installed extensions; for example, exposing required form fields or landmark navigation. User agents are encouraged to maximize their usefulness to users, including users without disabilities." 
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/introduction

Request a change to the title of the ARIA section so the scope of ARIA is not so narrowly defined in HTML5 (http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/embedded-content-0.html#annotations-for-assistive-technology-products-aria) and inlcude text simliar to the above to provide such guidance to all user agents.
Comment 1 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-04-08 08:13:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)

> Request a change to the title of the ARIA section so the scope of ARIA is not
> so narrowly defined in HTML5
> (http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/embedded-content-0.html#annotations-for-assistive-technology-products-aria)
> and inlcude text simliar to the above to provide such guidance to all user
> agents.

Do you have suggestion for a possible alternate title for the section?
Comment 2 steve faulkner 2010-04-08 14:22:21 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)

> Do you have suggestion for a possible alternate title for the section?

Some suggestions, in no particular order:


3.2.6 Use of WAI-ARIA Roles and Properties in HTML

or 

3.2.6 Using WAI-ARIA Roles and Properties in HTML

or

3.2.6 Conformance Requirements for WAI-ARIA Roles and Properties in HTML

or

3.2.6 WAI-ARIA Roles and Properties in HTML
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-04-13 05:56:27 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: While in theory ARIA could be exposed to other users, it would do a disservice to AT users to try to convince authors that ATs aren't the main target audience here.
Comment 4 steve faulkner 2010-04-13 08:21:04 UTC
Raised as issue 109
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/109
Comment 5 Michael Cooper 2010-09-07 15:54:24 UTC
Bug triage sub-team notes that this bug is in the escalation process. Assigning to Sam who sent the call for objections around http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/issue-109-objection-poll/results to track that this bug be handled as per outcome of the poll.
Comment 7 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-04-08 20:00:15 UTC
Specifically, I presume:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/ariasection#Details
Comment 8 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-04-08 20:17:36 UTC
The second change references a paragraph that is now absent. I've tried to put the suggested addition in the same relative location as the change proposal seems to have intended.
Comment 9 contributor 2011-04-08 20:17:59 UTC
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5977.
Check-in comment: apply wg decision
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5976&to=5977