[Bug 11557] Authors should not be allowed to specify roles on elements that they already have by default

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11557

--- Comment #39 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> 2012-02-08 13:42:14 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #38)
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I did some testing:

<input type="button" name="test" value="test" aria-pressed="true">

<input type="button" name="test" value="test" aria-pressed="true"
role="button">

In IE 9 and Firefox 9 on windows the aria-pressed state is ONLY exposed in a11y
API when the explicit role is present, so the W3C matches implementations.

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Received on Wednesday, 8 February 2012 13:44:14 UTC