Re: Summarizing the contentious history of re-opened PFWG-ISSUE-348: Consider renaming (now actually 'deprecating' in ARIA 1.1) role="presentation" to avoid avoid author confusion from Jason White on 2014-01-28 (wai-xtech@w3.org from January 2014)

From: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:11:46 +1100
To: wai-xtech@w3.org, "w3c-wai-pf@w3.org WAI-PFWG" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20140128001146.GA7361@jdc.jasonjgw.net>

James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback Suzanne. Whether or not “none” is the best
> replacement is irrelevant. The confusion is not around images. It it around
> the use of role="presentation" on other elements. For example:
> 
> The following marking: <h4 role="presentation">Foo</h4>
> 
> is effectively the same as: <div>Foo</div>
> 

Perhaps role="generic" would be more descriptive for the uninitiated.

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