RE: ACTION-1710: Rich Get with Freedom Scientific on our solution for listitem roles

> Likely, we should review all "text container" roles for this pattern and evaluate the situation for each -- what I'm saying is that this problem may be more than just listitem and link roles.

Technically, since any ARIA role can be applied to a Div, this includes every role, interactive or otherwise, which is where I'm seeing this as being a huge problem.


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From: Joseph Scheuhammer [mailto:clown@alum.mit.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 7:30 AM
To: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>; Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: ACTION-1710: Rich Get with Freedom Scientific on our solution for listitem roles

On 2015-08-31 7:27 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
> Let me explain. In HTML an anchor tag can span lots of content. It is 
> essentially a container. You could in fact have paragraphs of text and 
> other links inside it. So, essentially it is a container.
I see a general pattern emerging from this discussion:  certain roles are text containers, for which the spec might state that an accessible name is required and allow name-from-contents.  In some cases, the container could hold a potentially large amount of text, and a name based on the content will be long and practically useless.

Likely, we should review all "text container" roles for this pattern and evaluate the situation for each -- what I'm saying is that this problem may be more than just listitem and link roles.

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