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bug in ARIA regurgitation of 'contentinfo' role semantics

From: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:36:54 -0500
Message-Id: <852AB091-48E0-4233-8642-A615E84886AD@ieee.org>
To: public-pfwg-comments@w3.org

	
<quote
cite="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-role/#s_role_module_attributes">

contentinfo
Meta information about the content on the page or the page as a whole.

For example, footnotes, copyrights, links to privacy statements, etc.  
would belong here.

</quote>

<quote
cite="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/#contentinfo"
dated="2008-11-14">

contentinfo (role)

Meta information which applies to the first immediate ancestor whose  
role is not presentation.

In the context of the page this would apply to a section or the page  
of which it is the child. For example, footnotes, copyrights, links  
to privacy statements, etc. would belong here.

</quote>

<quote
cite="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-practices/#kbd_layout">

contentinfo
Meta information which applies to the first immediate ancestor whose  
role is not presentation.

</quote>

Res ipse loquitur.  The ARIA docs are wrong.  We don't get to  
redefine their role values.

Al
Received on Monday, 1 December 2008 01:37:38 GMT

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