Re: [w3c/webcomponents] Should ARIA 2.0 have a role corresponding to every HTML element? (#552)

@annevk yes, ARIA has roles that have no HTML equivalent (like tab, tablist and tabpanel for example).

ARIA was originally intended to provide semantics for the (then) emerging webapps that borrowed design patterns from software UIs (toolbars, tabpanels etc.). xHTML was the original host language, but the goal was to provide semantic information that was missing from HTML.

Many ARIA roles do map directly onto HTML elements now though - but not all, and I think that is what @slightlyoff has suggested might be a useful thing to have.

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