On 11 Aug 2008, at 20:30, Rob Crowther wrote:
David Storey wrote:
thing it adds is giving you more brownie points for validating,
while not allowing WAI-ARIA to work if JavaScript is turned off.
I would have thought that, if JavaScript was turned off, the ARIA
stuff wouldn't be too useful. As its purpose is to communicate
dynamic changes performed with JS to assistive technologies? If JS
is turned off then there's no in page updates and regular WCAG
applies? Does ARIA have benefits even to 'static' HTML apps?
It can do. For example, authors often create controls using bits or
mark up like spans and divs. While it is best to use the correct HTML
element, ARIA can tell the screen reader what you mean the mark-u to
be. Google uses divs instead of buttons quite often for example
(probably for styling reasons). While that is a bit more contrived
there are controls, such as trees or sliders where there are no
correct html element to use. Mostly JavaScript would be used, but it
is possible with just server side code if needed.
Rob
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