- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:59:48 +1000
- To: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer > <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: >> <a id="transcript" role="transcript" href="transcript.html">Transcript</a> > > I think markup like this basically won't work, because in terms of > ARIA processing the @role suppresses the native semantic of linkiness > entirely. That is: ARIA does not allow this to be surfaced as a both a > landmark and a link: elements can only have one role. > > You could do something like: > > <p role="transcript"><a id="transcript" > href="transcript.html">Transcript</a></p> > > In earlier ARIA drafts it was possible to have a landmark role *and* > another role: this is no longer the case. > > See especially: > > http://www.w3.org/WAI.new/PF/aria-implementation/#mapping_role Interesting - good to know. Well, you've already come up with the solution then, thanks! Cheers, Silvia.
Received on Friday, 8 June 2012 03:00:38 UTC