Re: Nested links (not related to children presentational issue in ARIA 1.1) from Richard Schwerdtfeger on 2016-06-23 (public-aria-admin@w3.org from June 2016)

From: Richard Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 08:47:13 -0500
To: Fred Esch <fesch@us.ibm.com>
Cc: ARIA Working Group Admin <public-aria-admin@w3.org>
Message-Id: <43063334-664E-4A52-B013-92DD469BCF99@gmail.com>

Nested links work in HTML browsers now. I don’t think they should be prohibited in SVG. The closer we align SVG and HTML the better it will be for developers. 

Rich

> On Jun 23, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Fred Esch <fesch@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> SVG is considering allowing nested links in SVG and the SVG WG is allowing us to give feedback on whether nested links would provide accessibility issues. HTML prohibits nested links - although they work in some browsers. SVG links (SVG <a> element) are reachable via tabs and should be readable by AT. In the future, we want to be able to navigate through the semantically important SVG elements (including links) and have AT read them. 
> 
> Are there accessibility reasons nested links are prohibited in HTML? Should nested links be prohibited in SVG for accessibility reasons? 
> 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Fred Esch 
> Watson, IBM, W3C Accessibility
> <0F322723.gif> Watson Release Management and Quality
> 
>

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