[Ogg a11y] <video> + srt

[Henri Sivonen]

On Dec 6, 2008, at 12:16, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:

> I've just checked where "role" is being used in HTML5 right now and it
> seems it is only used as a ARIA attribute.
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/markup-spec/#common.attrs.aria

Note that role isn't normatively in HTML5 at all at this point,  
although it's expected that it will be. The document you are referring  
to is pulling data from an experimental schema.

> I'm happy to rename "category" to "role" and define a few more
> keywords for the role attribute that represent the types of text
> codecs that we can deal with here. I am only wondering if this may be
> overloading the use of "role", since it is explicitly ARIA related in
> HTML5, while here we are talking about providing a selection feature
> to the web browser to display time-aligned text of different
> categories based upon user choice and user settings. Opinions?

To keep things clear, I recommend against using overloading role to do  
non-ARIA things in HTML5 (regardless of what the original design of  
role was in another context).

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Henri Sivonen
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