Or, in other words, @role; its not just for accessibility any more (sm).

Mark Birbeck wrote:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> On 29/08/06, Paul Nelson (ATC) <paulnel@winse.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> Shane,
>>
>> If you are saying that the "role" can be used by anybody for anything
>> they want you will effectively generate significant disadvantage for the
>> accessible community. A property that needs to be supported by browsers
>> and other systems to help the assistive technology tools will be so
>> flooded with other uses/misuses that there will be negative impact on
>> those who need to rely on that functionality to use web content.
>>
>> I hope that the meaning of roles remains exactly as it is worded below
>> and is not changed to be defined as "all things for all people".
>
> The key to @role is QNames and their implied expansion to a resource
> identifier, and so to the world of RDF. In that sense they can be "all
> things to all people", and the disambiguation comes via the taxonomies
> that Shane referred to.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
>

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