Dude, that's a little unrealistic and a tad bitter: "Its been possible to do ARIA style accessibility since about 1995 - its just now that people are starting to care."
Personally I've been waiting for ARIA to come of age now both assistive technologies and browsers offer support. With the imminent release of IEv8 (with ARIA support) it's time to re-examine state of play. I'm interested in how's of implementation, and what's happening with W3C validation? Can it be used with XHTML v1.0 yet? Will it ever be? Does serving the page as text/html still have issues? Is there a fully usable Doctype yet? Is there a simple method to implement liveregion areas? Any news or thoughts greatly appreciated. Mike Foskett http://websemantics.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Mathew Robertson Sent: 02 March 2009 10:03 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Javascript & Accessibility > David Dixon <da...@terrainferno.net> wrote: > > Interesting blog entry by the creators of the Cappuccino project > (http://cappuccino.org) on the subject on Web Accessibility vs > JavaScript Availability: > > http://rossboucher.com/2009/02/26/accessibility-degradation-in-cappuccin o > > > Personally im in favour of the distinction he makes, but the expectation > > for the WAI ARIA team to contact _them_ to help their framework use it > is rather unrealistic although the WAI ARIA team (as with the W3C in > general) need to start producing more palatable documentation rather > than just having huge technical manuals on the subject. > > Interested to know others thoughts on the subject. Its been possible to do ARIA style accessibility since about 1995 - its just now that people are starting to care. Mathew Robertson ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ******************************************************************* This is a confidential email. Tesco may monitor and record all emails. The views expressed in this email are those of the sender and not Tesco. Tesco Stores Limited Company Number: 519500 Registered in England Registered Office: Tesco House, Delamare Road, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire EN8 9SL VAT Registration Number: GB 220 4302 31 ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
