Published by: 456Bereastreet.com

Date: February 3, 2009

URL: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200902/validating_wai-aria_in_html_and_xhtml/

"WAI-ARIA has great potential to help developers make the Web more accessible to people with disabilities, especially those who are vision impaired or cannot use a mouse.

There is currently a problem with adding WAI-ARIA attributes to your HTML or XHTML markup though: the attributes are not defined in the DTDs for HTML or XHTML and will cause validation errors.

Since WAI-ARIA improves accessibility I could actually live with having some validation errors in my HTML. However, having to manually filter out certain errors to catch the real errors really reduces the value of validation as a quality assurance tool."

Read the entire article at: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200902/validating_wai-aria_in_html_and_xhtml/

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