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Raised By: Vince Abbate Jake Abma Tolu Adegbite Irfan Ali Matthew Atkinson Nadine Auer Andrew Barakat Mike Beganyi Rain Breaw Michaels Sheri Byrne-Haber Amy Carney Michael Cooper Santina Croniser Deborah Dahl Yao Ding Dee Dyer Niklas Egger Steve Faulkner David Fazio Reinaldo Ferraz Fredrik Fischer John Foliot Martin Forstner Zachary Gadoury Russell Galvin Becky Gibson Paul Grenier Markku Hakkinen Katie Haritos-Shea Olivia Hogan-Stark Scott Hollier Jonny James Sam Kanta George Kerscher Jeff Kline Raja Kushalnagar Charles LaPierre Gez Lemon Todd Libby Amanda Mace George Margetis Mark Miller Mary Jo Mueller Andrew Nevins Stavroula Ntoa Joshue O'Connor Brian O'Day Achraf Othman Susana Pallero John Paton Ian Pouncey Sonali Rai Ruoxi Ran Kai Recke Alan Reeve Shrirang Sahasrabudhe Janina Sajka Ciara salmon Lisa Seeman-Horwitz John Sherrod Tzviya Siegman Avneesh Singh David Sloan Alisa Smith Sharon Snider Neil Soiffer Jeanne F Spellman Jeff Stanley David Swallow Stacey Swinehart Ganderson Moda Taiwan Brigitte Thomas Jamie Vanderwall Harry Wang Léonie Watson Anna Wheler Jason White Lionel Wolberger Sarah Wood Gottfried Zimmermann Gregory Rosmaita
Description: ISSUE: Currently, there is both an HTML5 element named dialog and an ARIA role named dialog. A concern has been raised that the use of such synonyms could be detrimental. The editor of the HTML5 draft, Ian Hickson, has publicly stated that he is willing to change the element's name, but also remarked that "dialog" was the best possible choice out of the many considered by the WHAT WG, and pondered the need for a "dialog box" element in HTML5 itself. It has, therefore, been proposed, that the aria role dialog retain the spelling "d i a l o g"; that the spelling "d i a l o g" be reserved in HTML5 for the concept of a "dialog box", thereby bringing ARIA and HTML5 into harmony; and that the HTML5 element currently named "d i a l o g" be changed to reflect the correct spelling for the semantic use for which the element is intended, "d i a l o g u e". GJR's first proposal (aria-dialog and DIALOGUE element): * http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2008Nov/thread.html#msg75 associated XTech Wiki pages: 1. "aria-dialog versus HTML5's DIALOG element:" * http://esw.w3.org/topic/PF/XTech/HTML5/Dialogue 2. Proposal: D- A Single Letter Element Name * http://esw.w3.org/topic/PF/XTech/HTML5/D 3. D - A Single Letter Element Name Discussion Page: * http://esw.w3.org/topic/PF/XTech/HTML5/DDiscussion
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raised at the 2008-12-03 PF weekly call * http://www.w3.org/2008/12/03-pf-minutes.html#item03
due to the negative impact a change on the ARIA role dialog would have on existing implementations, and since there are no known implementations of HTML5's DIALOG [sic] element, it has been proposed that ARIA keep "d i a l o g" and that HTML5 change the name of the DIALOG [sic] element; to this end, a proposal to rename DIALOG to D and to extend the concept to XHTML2, a new wiki document has been created to explore the issues and requirements for a D element: 1. Proposal: D - A Single Letter Element Name for Dialogue * http://esw.w3.org/topic/PF/XTech/HTML5/D 2. D - A Single Letter Element Name Discussion Page: * http://esw.w3.org/topic/PF/XTech/HTML5/DDiscussion