On 11/19/07, Christophe Porteneuve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> How exactly does script.aculo.us relate?  AFAIK, ARIA is entirely about
> proper markup in the elements, and is therefore the responsibility of
> the code (be it server-side or client-side) building this markup.
>

In practice it is about setting attribute values in the DOM with
script (unless you are using XHTML 1.1 which isn't practical with
current browser demographics).

Apparently the Dojo framework has implemented ARIA extensively with
the help of IBM [1].

> Perhaps a couple tiny places in Scripty may append ARIA attributes to
> elements they add behavior to, but I feel it's more of the developer's
> responsibility, and should at the very least be a general boolean option
> in Scripty, if it does end up implementing its tiny part of it.
>

Maybe so. There are no drawbacks to specifying the correct ARIA
attributes for e.g. a slider widget.


[1]: http://www-03.ibm.com/able/resources/dojo.html

Regards,

Peter

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