- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:28:27 +0000
- To: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote: > I would like to request the chairs to reopen issue 130. I have a change > proposal for it. > > The proposal is as follows: > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/layouttables Do you feel this is still necessary? The draft has changed since your initial bug report to allow role="presentation" on any element (including table) regardless of its proper usage and semantics: "Authors must not set the ARIA role and aria-* attributes in a manner that conflicts with the semantics described in the following table, except that the presentation role may always be used." http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/content-models.html#annotations-for-assistive-technology-products-aria -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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