- From: Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 15:43:12 +0100
- To: "Schnabel, Stefan" <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com>, "White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org>
- Cc: Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com>, ARIA Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>
It may be this is what's meant by ambiguity, but what worries me is the potential for confusing or even stopping users from accessing web content if this attribute is misused, and the potential for developers to misunderstand its purpose and misuse it as well. The spec recommends using the attribute only on non-interactive containers, but doesn't prevent it. For this reason alone I have serious misgivings about including this attribute. It also feels as though this takes a step towards role extensibility - or at least gives the impression that arbitrary roles can be presented to users where no suitable role exists already. We do need to look at extensibility, especially in the context of Web Components, but this feels premature. Léonie.
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