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On 4/2/09 10:19 AM, ScottJehl wrote:
> Thanks Rich and Alex,
>
> 1. I seem to remember something in the ARIA talk at SXSW about using
> role="application" to free up tab order without using tabindex -1
> everywhere. Do you have any idea on that? It seems odd that the role
> is never necessary though... maybe Jaws is being lenient on that?
>    

First, sorry this whole thread got lost in my stack.

Probably the best way to think about using the landmark 
role="application" is when you want to tell assistive technology that 
this part of the dom is not really just a bunch of words to be read (via 
keyboard commands), but is instead an interactive UI, so "please let the 
keyboard events pass through to the browser/dom".

(see http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/#application)

Hope this helps,

D