Re: [WSG] XHTML5 polyglot markup and WAI-ARIA, is there a valid way?

2012-07-31 Thread Isabel Santos
Hi Rob, thank you, and sorry for the delayed answer. The need for xml comes from the site being a web application for an academic work. The idea is to generate xml both to the site and for exchange purposes. I could generate both xml and html but that isn't very elegant, and would not optimise

Re: [WSG] XHTML5 polyglot markup and WAI-ARIA, is there a valid way?

2012-07-31 Thread Mathew Robertson
Hi Isabel, It sounds like you might be confusing/mixing your requirements... from the limited information you have provided, this sounds like perfect candidate to generate two separate files ie: HTML already has accessibility built in, and you get the XML file contain exactly what you

Re: [WSG] XHTML5 polyglot markup and WAI-ARIA, is there a valid way?

2012-07-31 Thread Rob Crowther
On 01/08/12 00:29, Isabel Santos wrote: I could generate both xml and html but that isn't very elegant, and would not optimise the resources. Unless you serve the XHTML files with a MIME type of application/xml or application/xhtml+xml, which will break things in IE9, the browser will treat

Re: [WSG] XHTML5 polyglot markup and WAI-ARIA, is there a valid way?

2012-07-30 Thread Rob Crowther
On 26/07/2012 23:41, Isabel Santos wrote: I decided to use polyglot markup, allthough it involved serving it as text-html for old trident browsers, to be able to include xml content on the site (wich I'm still learning). What XML content do you need to include? If you just stick to regular

Re: [WSG] XHTML5 polyglot markup and WAI-ARIA, is there a valid way?

2012-07-28 Thread Isabel Santos
Hi Kevin, thank you for your feedback, I do recall times when this list was quite more active :) I found out I can use WAI-ARIA with html5 polyglot, without any aditional schema or doctype, I was tired the other day, and not thinking straight. The reason it wasn't validating, is because

Re: [WSG] XHTML5 polyglot markup and WAI-ARIA, is there a valid way?

2012-07-27 Thread Kevin L. Erickson
I am also looking into some similar areas. Looking for replies??? Kevin Erickson 804-873-0388 On Jul 26, 2012, at 6:41 PM, Isabel Santos unboun...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've been researching for a way to use aria roles and states, to enhance accessibility on a web application, but it

[WSG] XHTML5 polyglot markup and WAI-ARIA, is there a valid way?

2012-07-26 Thread Isabel Santos
Hi all, I've been researching for a way to use aria roles and states, to enhance accessibility on a web application, but it seems to be turning my brain into a soup of glia cells and floating neurons flashing like crazy fireflies! I decided to use polyglot markup, allthough it involved serving