[theme-reviewers] Microformats & Role Landmarks

[Amy Hendrix]

ARIA roles are absolutely still relevant -- aside from the fact that
what they do isn't really fully covered by HTML5 semantics, it's also
the case that many assistive technologies aren't yet at the point
where they can be dropped. See the discussion here:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24629. Even though we don't
require ARIA markup, I suspect we'll start seeing it more as the theme
accessibility review process comes up to speed.

On the other hand, I've never seen Microformats take off the way their
advocates have been promising for, oh, a decade now. But it's not
because they're outdated (if anything, they're better represented in
HTML5 than they ever were before), just because while they're great
for some very limited circumstances (name/address data, recipes,
bibliographic records), they're not particularly compelling for
general use.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Bryan Hadaway <bhadaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> Was curious, in 2013, how everyone feels about the importance/necessity of:
>
> Microformats
> http://microformats.org/
>
> and
>
> Role Landmarks
> http://blog.paciellogroup.com/2013/02/using-wai-aria-landmarks-2013/
>
> With the evolution of software, web browsers and HTML5 are these becoming
> superfluous, out-dated elements, or are they still very important today and
> tomorrow?
>
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