#1074 closed enhancement (fixed)
Add WAI-ARIA landmark roles to default theme
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 1.0 |
| Component: | Front-end | Version: | 1.0-rc-2 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | has-patch |
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Description
WAI-ARIA landmark roles add more navigational structure to pages helping those who are blind find certain blocks of content on a page more easily.
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A similar patch for WordPress went in in changeset 10945 during the 24 hour marathon.
I also asked rmccue on IRC to look over the patch, and he believes I've covered everything. Requesting commit. :-)
- Milestone changed from 1.5 to 1.0
Replying to sambauers:
This is interesting and certainly assistive standards should be supported. Considering this is a very new draft standard we should put this away until there is a demand from capable assistive web clients.
The capable web clients are out there now. WAI-ARIA is being supported by Firefox 3, IE 8, Opera and the new Safari 4 betas. Screen readers such as NVDA and Orca are supporting it, including these landmarks, now.
I request to reconsider for 1.0.
- Milestone changed from 1.0 to 1.0-beta
Another source of information is this post.
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
This is interesting and certainly assistive standards should be supported. Considering this is a very new draft standard we should put this away until there is a demand from capable assistive web clients.