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 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 it as > text-html for old trident browsers, to be able to include xml content on the > site (wich I'm still learning). > > Since I'm using dropdown menus, that do not open on tab focus without > javascript, I decided to try on wai-aria to improve the overall accessibility > of the site, complementing the semantics, with or without javascript. And all > was well, I was loving the idea and the new possibilities WAI-ARIA brings to > the game, untill I tested it in http://validator.nu/. > > According to the Polyglot Markup: HTML-Compatible XHTML Documents > (http://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/) > I shouldn't use any docktype on the head of the document besides the > <!DOCTYPE HTML> declaration, > and am only allowed to use the default namespaces > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> > <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> > <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> > wich by the way, I can and should omit, because they are included in the > html5 by default. > > Yet XHTML is, according to http://www.alistapart.com/articles/waiaria/ the > extendible markup language, so it makes sense to extended it. > Also, xml is supposed to allow for publication and standardization of > doctypes and schemas, to avoid the need to be always reinventing the weel, > and to allow easier document sharing. > Since WAI-ARIA is gaining so mutch ground in terms of implementation (I'm > gessing probably more driven by the mobile market then by the screen reader > user needs) their should be already a doctype or a schema learking around. > I'm not sure the one on ALAs exemple is what I need, but then again, it seems > to have been designed to xhtml 1.1, not to polyglot XHTML5. > > I canĀ“t avoid stranging that I'm finding so few documents on the web > mentioning both polyglot markup and WAI-ARIA, most of them refering to older > xhtml versions, stating the incompatibility, whille telling us to break the > standards in favor of the accessibility (no doubt accessibility is more > important, but why should one have to choose?). > > I'm probably missing something here, this doesn't make much sense, I'm > really, really confused, too many documents, from several different groups, > and I'm far from an expert. > Can any of you offer some guidance on the matter? > > already gratefull for your time, > regards > isabel santos > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************