HTML WG, XHTML2 WG, PFWG,

Not so long ago a proposal was posted to public-html and wai-xtech for a way to make ARIA work in HTML:

   http://www.w3.org/mid/OF2D24F329.A053FA4B-ON8525735C.00544B50-8525735C.0054A743@us.ibm.com

I have over the past few days with help from Aaron Leventhal and others written up a draft for how this should work. The goals and constraints we had when writing the proposal were:

  * It should be possible to use in both (X)HTML and other vocabularies
    without the need for scripting.

  * The processing should be the same for both HTML and XHTML.

  * It should be possible to author new content that works in Firefox 2.

  * There should be as few different ways as possible to use role/ARIA.

  * The proposal should be directly implementable in Firefox 3 and Opera
    9.5.

  * The proposal should not be unnecesarily incompatible with the existing
    specs.

The proposal is available at:

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2007Sep/att-0106/aria-proposal.html

Comments welcome.

Cheers,
-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software