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Re: please test expanding content areas

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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Feb 8, 2012 5:24PM

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> In my view ARIA is currently only a theoretical solution. We meet very few
> people who have any idea what it is. Some are aware that new events are now
> announced but they don't know what they mean. It's a chicken and egg problem
> insofar as people will not learn until ARIA is widely supported and used.
> However, I think it's going to take a very large organisation such as Amazon
> or the BBC to implement ARIA before users develop the need or desire to
> learn about it.

I see no reason reason why an end user should need to learn what ARIA is.

Requiring users to learn what ARIA is seems indicative of poor AT UIs.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis