ISSUE-14: Integration of WAI-ARIA roles into HTML5
aria-role
Integration of WAI-ARIA roles into HTML5
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- HTML 5 spec
- Raised by:
- Sam Ruby
- Opened on:
- 2007-11-10
- Description:
- Raised by: Gregory Rosmaita, 10 Nov 2007
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Nov/0167.html
## Proposals
1. bring xhtml role attribute into HTML 5
* Simon Pieters, Opera - http://simon.html5.org/specs/aria-proposal
* Simon Pieters ARIA Proposal email post - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Sep/0516.html
* Aaron M Leventhal, ARIA in HTML -- a new FAQ, and a proposal - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Sep/0436.html
2. have an aria attribute
## ARIA Joint Working Group Sessions
* ARIA Joint Working Group Sessions (PF, HTML, XHTML2, SVG)
* Joint Meeting on ARIA (17 October 2007) - http://www.w3.org/2007/10/17-aria-minutes.html
* Joint Meeting on ARIA (31 October 2007)- http://www.w3.org/2007/10/31-aria-minutes.html
* Joint Meeting on ARIA (7 November 2007) - http://www.w3.org/2007/11/06-aria-minutes.html
* Joint Meeting on ARIA (10 November 2007) - http://www.w3.org/2007/11/10-html-wg-minutes#item01
## Emails
* Al Gilman, Opening thoughts on WAI-ARIA in HTML5 - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Jul/0903.html
* Robert Burns, default role values for HTML elements and built-in accessibility - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Jul/0905.html
## Links
* Roles for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA Roles) Working Draft - http://www.w3.org/TR/aria-role/
* ESW HTML Issue Wiki has a page concerning ARIA support at large - http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/ARIAIntegration
* Ian Hickson discusses role support on Mozilla's bug tracker - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391713#c10
* ARIA: Accessible Rich Internet Applications (Mozilla Dev document) - http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/ARIA:_Accessible_Rich_Internet_Applications#Future_of_ARIA
* ARIA FAQ from Mozilla's Developer Center - http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/ARIA:_Accessible_Rich_Internet_Applications/Relationship_to_HTML_FAQ#I_want_to_use_text.2Fhtml_with_ARIA_and_avoid_declaring_namespaces_--_what_are_the_current_workarounds.3F
* ARIA Support Buy-In from Vendors: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/ARIA:_Accessible_Rich_Internet_Applications/Relationship_to_HTML_FAQ#Who_supports_ARIA.3F
* Henri Sivonen, Built-in Accessibility Roles in HTML5 - http://hsivonen.iki.fi/html5-roles/
## Examples & Tests
* Illinois Center for Information Technology Accessibility (at UIUC) ARIA Test Pages: http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/
* ARIA Best Practices QA Test Matrix Tests: http://html4all.org/wiki/index.php/ARIATestTests
* Simon Pieters' ARIA Tests (supplement to SP's ARIA proposal) - http://simon.html5.org/test/aria/
* Mozilla's Test/Example Matrix - http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/ARIA:_Accessible_Rich_Internet_Applications#Landmark_Roles_from_XHTML_role_attribute_module
* Rich Schwerdtfeger's Drag'n'Drop example (xhtml version with role, and aria-) - attached as zipped archive to http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Nov/0168.html
* "Introducing AxsJAX -- Access-Enabling AJAX" - http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/11/introducing-axsjax-access-enabling-ajax.html
HTML5-SPEC-SECTIONS [annotations-for-assistive-technology-products]
- Related Actions Items:
ACTION-9 on Michael Cooper to Discuss UML tools with DanC - due 2007-11-30, closedACTION-30 on Gregory Rosmaita to Report back after 11-30 meeting on ARIA syntax - due 2007-12-06, closedACTION-8 on Michael Cooper to Discuss with PFWG role attribute vs aria attribute - due 2008-02-21, closedACTION-11 on Dan Connolly to Show how <div aria="something"> works with URI based extensibility - due 2008-03-13, closedACTION-23 on Joshue O Connor to coordinate tests using ARIA - due 2008-09-30, closed- Related emails:
- {minutes} } HTML WG telecon 2010-07-24: issues, surveys, decisions, publication status, TF reports (from Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com on 2010-06-25)
- [minutes] 20100325 HTML teleconference (from plh@w3.org on 2010-03-30)
- Re: ISSUE 14: aria-role - suggest closing on 2009-11-12 (from mjs@apple.com on 2009-11-24)
- [minutes] HTML WG call 20091119 (from plh@w3.org on 2009-11-19)
- Re: {agenda} HTML WG telcon 2009-11-19: issues, action items, calls for consensus/proposals, task force reports (from oradnio@gmail.com on 2009-11-19)
- Re: {agenda} HTML WG telcon 2009-11-19: issues, action items, calls for consensus/proposals, task force reports (from laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com on 2009-11-19)
- {agenda} HTML WG telcon 2009-11-19: issues, action items, calls for consensus/proposals, task force reports (from Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com on 2009-11-18)
- {agenda} HTML WG telcon 2009-11-19: issues, action items, calls for consensus/proposals, task force reports (from Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com on 2009-11-18)
- Chairs Solicit Proposals or recommend closing for issues: 4, 7, 14, 30, 63 (from rubys@intertwingly.net on 2009-10-26)
- ISSUE 14: aria-role - suggest closing on 2009-11-12 (from rubys@intertwingly.net on 2009-10-26)
- State of HTML WG Unresolved Issues (from mjs@apple.com on 2009-08-20)
- Re: Consolidated issues that may qualify as 'controversial' (from rubys@intertwingly.net on 2009-08-12)
- Re: Consolidated issues that may qualify as 'controversial' (from shelleyp@burningbird.net on 2009-08-12)
- Consolidated issues that may qualify as 'controversial' (from mjs@apple.com on 2009-08-12)
- controversial issue candidates in issues 1-15 (from mjs@apple.com on 2009-08-10)
- {minutes} HTML WG telcon 2008-07-31 (from connolly@w3.org on 2008-07-31)
- Requesting some issue guidance on ARIA (from shawn@db79.com on 2008-05-22)
- {minutes} HTML WG issue-tracking telcon 2008-04-10/11 (from mike@w3.org on 2008-04-11)
- {minutes} 2008-04-03 HTML WG telcon (from mike@w3.org on 2008-04-04)
- minutes HTML WG weekly 21 Feb (from connolly@w3.org on 2008-03-09)
- {minutes} HTML WG teleconference 2008-01-24 (from mike@w3.org on 2008-01-25)
- dual [sic] approach to ARIA embedding [was: Re: upcoming ARIA publicatoins, test coordination (ISSUE-14)] (from alfred.s.gilman@IEEE.org on 2008-01-23)
- Re: upcoming ARIA publicatoins, test coordination (ISSUE-14) (from connolly@w3.org on 2008-01-23)
- ISSUE-14 (aria-role): Integration of WAI-ARIA roles into HTML5 [HTML 5 spec] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2007-11-10)
Related notes:
SPM: Gregory, I created a new section for the joint WG sessions because it seems like many proposals are discussed not just a specific one. Thanks for adding this though... I'm sitting in a meeting on ARIA-Role and trying to update the issue as I go.
Shawn Medero, 10 Nov 2007, 14:45:39thank you shawn - we need to ensure linkbacks to both issue pages, then [Gregory J. Rosmaita]
Gregory Rosmaita, 10 Nov 2007, 15:30:22Henri Sivonen just wrote another piece on ARIA/HTML5 that touches on roles quite a bit: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/aria-html5-bis/
Shawn Medero, 10 Apr 2008, 23:18:10using RAISED to represent lower priority as discussed in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-wg-issue-tracking/2008Aug/0005.html
progress on action-23 is due 1 Oct
[Laura]: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/14
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