[Bug 24394] New: non-ARIA role values are flagged as an error and should be a warning

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24394

            Bug ID: 24394
           Summary: non-ARIA role values are flagged as an error and
                    should be a warning
           Product: Validator (Nu)
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: General
          Assignee: mike+validator@w3.org
          Reporter: shane@aptest.com
        QA Contact: www-validator-cvs@w3.org

The W3C ARIA specification [1] refers to the W3C Role Attribute Recommendation
[2] for the definition of the role attribute.  ARIA also defines a collection
of role values that have specific semantics, and only those values are passed
through to underlying accessibility technologies [4].  Therefore, if an element
has <foo role="unknown known" then the role of "known" is the "ARIA role". 
Today the validator correctly flags the value of "unknown" in this example as
an error.

However, the Role Attribute Recommendation allows for additional vocabularies
to be defined as long as those vocabularies are scoped as full URIs or as a
CURIE.  Consequently, an element like <foo prefix="dc:
http://purl.org/dc/terms/" role="dc:description dc:title known"> is 1) valid
and 2) has a valid ARIA role that would be passed to the underlying
accessibility technology layer.

My request is that the validator either 1) ignore role values that match the
pattern for CURIE or FullURI, or 2) change the current error to a warning - as
in "warning, the values dc:description and dc:title are non-ARIA values, and
will therefore be ignored by ARIA user agents."

(Note - technically the @prefix in the example above is not required, since
there are some prefixes that are automatically defined in the RDFa Initial
Context [3] - it is included for completeness)

[1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/roles
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/role-attribute/
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-core/Overview.html#s_initialcontexts
[4] http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab

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