[theme-reviewers] Microformats & Role Landmarks

[Amy Hendrix]

@Cais, totally agree -- and I hope I didn't sound like I was going
after your response! I was aiming at the general question of "is this
stuff no longer needed" but I can get a little vehement on the
subject.

As for ARIA in the guidelines, I think we're probably not there yet.
I'd love to see accessibility review take off, and with _s and all the
twenties using ARIA, there's a lot of solid stuff for people to build
on to make accessible themes. But making it a requirement for all
themes feels to me like one of those areas where having so many
guidelines becomes a burden for themers. I'd be much more down with a
guideline along the lines of "ARIA is optional, but if used it has to
be done correctly".

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Edward Caissie
<edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:
> @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 because they're outdated (if anything, they're better represented in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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