Re: ISSUE-35 (aria-processing): Need to define processing requirements for aria states and properties when used in html [HTML 5 spec]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Simon Pieters wrote:
> 
> Example: HTML4 has <h1> through <h6> elements to create sections and 
> headings. ARIA has role="section" and role="heading". How do they 
> integrate? How does a UA create the document outline? Does 
> role="heading" actually solve a problem when HTML is the host language?

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, James Graham wrote:
>
> For example how will UAs handle markup like:
> 
> <label for="a">Foo</label><span id="b">Bar</span><input id="a" 
> aria-labelledby="b">
> 
> or
> 
> <tr><th id="a" scope="row">Foo</th> <tr><td aria-describedby="a">

These examples and others of that nature are why I haven't merged the ARIA 
proposal into HTML5 yet, by the way. This is a blocker issue.

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