- From: Sailesh Panchang <sailesh.panchang@deque.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:40:10 -0500
- To: Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hello Jonathan, Many do not know or forget that ARIA should only be used in circumstances where native HTML markup is not available. Sailesh On 11/9/12, Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote: > With more people embracing the use of ARIA, I am concerned that reliance on > ARIA only to convey structure will be a problem. > > > > For example, the ARIA role of heading can be used with the level attribute > to specify headings on any element. When a page is viewed without style > sheets or with a custom style sheet all heading levels would likely appear > the same – without a change of size that you would normally get from using > HTML heading structural elements h1, h2, h3, etc.. > > > > I believe this could violate WCAG 2 SC 1.3.1 Information and Relationships > as there is no differentiation of headings unless a custom style sheet with > CSS for the heading and level roles was implemented. > > > > Do people see this as a user agent issue or a WCAG 2 violation? > > > > Jonathan >
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