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From: Calvin Huang
Date: Mar 2, 2012 12:24PM

Rick,
What validator are you using? The W3C HTML5 validator validates XHTML5.
This allows you to maintain XHTML templates and still use HTML5 features
such as WIA-ARIA.

There's no reason why you can't follow web standards and still use
accessibility features. Frankly, it's these standards that enable
accessibility features as WIA-ARIA. And there's also a difference between a
broken validator and a document that doesn't validate. You should never
knowingly code to a broken validator. Validators are tools to help you find
errors in your code, not to place arbitrary restrictions on your own code
via shortcomings in the validator's implementation of a standard.

So if you're using a validator that hasn't implemented WIA-ARIA, and those
are the only validation errors it's turning up, then you should consider
your document as validating.

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Calvin Huang
Digital Media Consultant
Resilien7, Inc.
Phone: 909.660.3442
Web: www.resilien7.com

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