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Re: ARIA applications and document text

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From: Steven Faulkner
Date: Mar 8, 2010 7:09AM

hi Everett,

use role="document"

http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/roles#document

regards
Stevef

On 8 March 2010 13:00, E.J. Zufelt < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> I'm wondering if there is a best practice for how to present document
> information within an ARIA application region? What I mean by this is if
> you have an ARIA application, but have a text pane within the document that
> has a large amount of text for the user to read, is there a way to set a
> role on this text that will disengage application mode for AT that supports
> an application role?
>
> I'm looking for the correct, best practice, answer, and also the practical
> real world, it actually works, answer as well.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Everett Zufelt
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