RE: implied ARIA semantics, anchor is missing radio

It looks like this was a draft from 2012, so there might be a more current document available that is more valid, but in case there isn’t, it also might be worth adding the role of ‘option’ to the list as well.

 

 

From: Bryan Garaventa [mailto:bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 10:17 AM
To: 'PF'
Cc: 'Jonathan Avila'
Subject: implied ARIA semantics, anchor is missing radio

 

I’m not sure where to pass this on, but Jon is right, radio should be listed here as well.

 

From: Jonathan Avila [mailto:jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 9:55 AM
To: Bryan Garaventa
Subject: Another ARIA thing to pass on

 

Under restrictions for the implied ARIA semantics - anchor element should include radio because checkbox and menuradio and menucheckbox are included.

 

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-preview/wai-aria.html

 


Language feature

Default implied ARIA semantic

Restrictions


a <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-preview/the-a-element.html#the-a-element>  element that creates a  <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-preview/links.html#hyperlink> hyperlink

link role

Role must be either link, button, checkbox,menuitem, menuitemcheckbox, menuitemradio,tab, or treeitem