Henri asked:
do you think role=article is a legitimate and useful feature in ARIA?
Pretty useful but not *as* useful as some of the biggies e.g. search,
navigation, contentinfo, and all the roles to do with interaction.
Do you accept the notion that ARIA should become syntactically
obsolete over time so that its semantics are natively available in
HTML proper? (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg-comments/2009AprJun/0031.html
)
Now that's a big question. :-)
If that is the one of the goals of HTML5 then aren't there going to be
lots of existing role values that won't be covered by HTML?
role="article" would probably be the least of them.
But, even accepting that ARIA roles should be obsoleted by HTML,
that's not the same as being obsoleted by HTML *elements*. It's still
possible to specify that a <section> is of a particular type (e.g.
article) without necessarily creating a new element for it. Otherwise
we'd have to create <password>, <checkbox>, <radio> elements, etc.
instead of using <input type="">.
So an answer of "yes" to your question doesn't mean that every current
ARIA role needs a corresponding distinct element in HTML.
Yes.
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Jeremy Keith
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