Re: [AAPI] role="" from David Bolter on 2009-08-27 (wai-xtech@w3.org from August 2009)

From: David Bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:26:41 -0700
To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
CC: "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4A96CFE1.8030403@gmail.com>

On 26/08/09 8:14 AM, Simon Pieters wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:36:34 +0200, David Bolter 
> <david.bolter@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If an author (strangely) includes a role="", I'm thinking we can 
>> treat it the same as if the role is not specified at all. Thoughts?
>
> This seems to be what the ARIA spec says already.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#ua_role_identify
>
> This algorithm will fail to find a role both when the attribute is 
> absent and when it's the empty string.
>

Thanks Simon, it is nice to see this is captured in section 8.1.1.

cheers,
David

Received on Thursday, 27 August 2009 18:27:20 UTC