[theme-reviewers] Microformats & Role Landmarks

[Edward Caissie]

@Amy - I probably could have worded my first response better.

I agree ARIA is relevant ... it's just not explicitly specified anywhere in
the guidelines (yet?).

Edward Caissie
aka Cais.


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 because they're outdated (if anything, they're better represented in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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