An update to this: I just re-joined the ARIA-WG on Mozilla's behalf. Marco
2016-06-02 17:47 GMT+02:00 David Bolter <dbol...@mozilla.com>: > Hi Johnathan, > > Our lack of direct W3C ARIA involvement recently is mainly due to > time/resource constraints and we have influence via proxy. > > I think ARIA is best scoped as passive semantics used to describe the > reality of how web developers (ab)use HTML. It is not unreasonable to argue > that ARIA, by existing, implicitly condones this (ab)use. That said, we > made the decision a long time ago to advocate using proper semantic HTML > (and evolve HTML where it falls short), while accepting the need for a > solution/hack for the reality of what web developers are doing. > > The password case is interesting though I've not followed it closely. I'm > happy to connect you with people (including Rich) if needed (feel free ping > me offline)... > > Cheers, > D > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Jonathan Kingston <jkings...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > >> <mz...@mozilla.com> >> Hey, >> >> So I was just informed that Mozilla isn't a member of the ARIA working >> group which shocked me, we have however had a hand in the spec over the >> years (I have cc'd those mentioned). >> >> I notice over the years some disappointment with the spec as it being a >> separate module to semantics in HTML itself however I don't see a real >> opposition not to be in the group. This seems more of a formality when the >> group split into two working groups. >> >> It appears that ARIA 1.1 is moving to be resolved in the next few weeks >> so if we had any objections we would need to move now I have been told. >> >> *role="password"* has been added to the spec: >> https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/aria.html#password and I jotted >> my objections in a post: >> https://jotter.jonathankingston.co.uk/blog/2016/05/16/role-password-is-not-wise/ >> >> My post was largely dismissed in this mail: >> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-aria/2016May/0126.html >> >> Is it worth us joining? Can we discuss the wider use of ARIA itself? >> Rushing to standardise features seems a shame. >> >> Thanks >> > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
