On 9 Aug 2008, at 14:19, James Jeffery wrote:
Never really heard of ARIA until I came across it in a Web Development magazine (.net mag). I have just spent a few hours getting my head around it, and whilst I agree it looks useful for screen readers and such, isn't it less semantic?
Only if abused.
Applying attributes that would currently make your markup invalid is something which I am not happy about.
This is why you use a variant of (X)HTML that includes ARIA.
Along with that, using <span> to create a checkbox seems less semantic than using form elements.
Yes, don't do that.
Is ARIA markup only supposed to be used with browsers who have JS enabled or sites that use alot of JS for dynamic content?
I haven't looked _too_ closely at it, but I believe it is there to explain what the JS is doing.
What about browsers that don't support ARIA markup?
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