|+ /** An object representing a navigational landmark, a region on a page to
+ which the user may want quick access, such as navigating, searching,
+ perusing the primary content. |||
nit: I'd change the last bit to "such as a navigation area, a search
facility or the main content of a page".
Otherwise, looks fine to me!
Thanks,
Jamie
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On 24/08/2016 2:05 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
> Jamie, please review the change [1] at your earliest convenience:
> * add landmark role
> * no form role deprecation for now (we should open issue against HTML
> a11y mapping guide, and possibly revisit ARIA change)
>
> Please feel free to merge the branch if it looks good.
>
> Thanks.
> Alex.
>
> [1]
> http://git.linuxfoundation.org/?p=a11y/ia2.git;a=commitdiff;h=87d4e3be9b9029974db2c37113db5c16210e8566
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:56 PM, James Teh <jamie@nvaccess.org
> <mailto:jamie@nvaccess.org>> wrote:
>
> On 11/08/2016 2:58 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
>
> 1) adding IA2_ROLE_LANDMARK and
>
> Yes.
>
> 2) deprecating IA2_ROLE_FORM?
>
> I'd argue that there is more semantic value in a "form" than just
> the fact that it is a landmark. This probably doesn't apply to
> ARIA (at least for now), since role="form" is defined as only a
> landmark. However, I'd argue it does apply to the HTML form tag.
> So, I'm fine t not use IA2_ROLE_FORM for ARIA role="form", but I'm
> dubious about deprecating it altogether, including for the HTML
> form tag.
> Jamie
>
>
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