Re: [WSG] ARIA

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It would be really nice, that instead of introducing more and more 
design element features like ARIA markup, that what is and isn't 
supported at different levels (HTML4 or HTML5 or XHTML), that w3c and 
the browser vendor's worked together to properly come to agreement on 
what should be used rather then what they want to make as they're own 
spin off. I mean, look at what IE does to CSS, and then Opera uses the 
standards differently although much better. At least, as far as I can 
tell Mozilla are the only ones to get it completely right, but then even 
it has it's own quirks.

No, instead of developing new ways to write markup, they need to get 
into agreement (finally) of what the standards are truly going to be.

I for one am tired of writing up code for different browser's and having 
to hack code around to make things work.

What we need to be doing is pushing the vendor's into getting it right.



James Jeffery wrote:
Never really heard of ARIA until I came across it in a Web Development 
magazine (.net mag). I have just spent a few hours getting my head 
around it, and whilst I agree it looks useful for screen readers and 
such, isn't it less semantic?

Applying attributes that would currently make your markup invalid is 
something which I am not happy about. Along with that, using <span> to 
create a checkbox seems less semantic than using form elements.

Is ARIA markup only supposed to be used with browsers who have JS 
enabled or sites that use alot of JS for dynamic content? What about 
browsers that don't support ARIA markup?

I'm only dipping my feet in the water at the moment so I probably 
don't fully understand, but from what I have read so far it seems a 
bit wishy washy at the moment.

Any replies appreciated.

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