Re: Fwd: [Accessibility-ia2] IA2 Role Landmark

Landed.

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:43 PM, James Teh <jamie@nvaccess.org> wrote:

> +  /** 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
>
>
> 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> 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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