[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6914: Add ARIA markup for required fields

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#6914: Add ARIA markup for required fields
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 Reporter:  MarcoZ       |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  2.6      
Component:  General      |     Version:  2.5.1    
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:           
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 Using ARIA ([http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Accessible_DHTML
 Accessible Rich Internet Applications]) markup, it is possible to enhance
 WordPress' accessibility to indicate the "required" state of certain form
 fields. This is currently indicated visually through styling, and through
 adding an abbr with title "required" and a * as plain text. But using ARIA
 markup, screen readers that support this can do more with explicit state
 "required" for the form field accessibles, for example play a certain
 sound or the like.

 ARIA is unintrusive: If a browser is used such as IE 7 or Safari, ARIA
 markup won't interfere, it will simply be ignored. Browsers however, that
 support the WAI-ARIA markup already, will automatically use the extra
 information, and as more browsers become available, they'll pick it up
 automatically as well.

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