On 10 Aug 2008, at 23:49, Hassan Schroeder wrote:
David Dorward wrote:
(Obviously you have to validate against a DTD that includes ARIA
features)
Right, and the only thing I could find relating to this was:
This is a public identifier that I've never heard of ...
"http://www.w3.org
David Dorward wrote:
Anyone know when the W3C validator will support it? :-)
(Obviously you have to validate against a DTD that includes ARIA features)
Right, and the only thing I could find relating to this was:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
:: which the validato
On 10 Aug 2008, at 23:09, Hassan Schroeder wrote:
David Storey wrote:
HTML4 and XHTML1 are the here and now. WAI_ARIA was retrofitted
from XHTML2 (I believe) to HTML so that it could be used right
away. All major browser vendors support it now, once IE8 comes out.
Anyone know when the
David Storey wrote:
HTML4 and XHTML1 are the here
and now. WAI_ARIA was retrofitted from XHTML2 (I believe) to HTML so
that it could be used right away. All major browser vendors support it
now, once IE8 comes out.
Anyone know when the W3C validator will support it? :-)
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Hassan Schroed
On 10 Aug 2008, at 11:53, James Jeffery wrote:
Progressive enhancement and accessibility. Hmmm. I am not sure about
this, I thought accessibility was about providing access to websites
from all angles, not progressivly enhancing access to users with
more up to date technology or browsers.
Progressive enhancement and accessibility. Hmmm. I am not sure about
this
There's a slight difference between progressive enhancement techniques
and graceful degradation. Graceful degradation, tends to be that you
try to do everything with the scripting and fall back if you can,
whereas progr
Progressive enhancement and accessibility. Hmmm. I am not sure about this, I
thought accessibility was about providing access to websites from all
angles, not progressivly enhancing access to users with more up to date
technology or browsers.
Would it not be better to include ARIA markup in HTML5
What about browsers that don't support ARIA markup?
Graceful degradation (if the page is well written).
Or progressive enhancement.
Some references:
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/javascript#access
A good intro to WAI ARIA by Gez Lemon:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introduction-to-wai-aria/
