RE: text role removal

>From what I remember, this was removed due to the inability to handle the scenario of author error when role="text" were applied to the body tag of a webpage, which would destroy all child contents. This came up during one of the UAIG calls.



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-----Original Message-----
From: jcraig@apple.com [mailto:jcraig@apple.com] 
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 9:19 PM
To: Birkir Gunnarsson <birkir.gunnarsson@deque.com>
Cc: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>; Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: text role removal

Thanks Birkir 

> On Jun 19, 2016, at 6:57 PM, Birkir Gunnarsson <birkir.gunnarsson@deque.com> wrote:
> 
> March 31st CFC email.
> Meeting minutes: 
> https://www.w3.org/2016/03/31-aria-minutes.html#item04
> 
> 
> 
>> On 6/19/16, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:
>> I can't find any of the discussion as to why the text role was 
>> removed. I remember some talk about adding authoring warnings (which 
>> I helped write) and limiting the role to the HTML-specific element 
>> <img> (which I objected
>> to) and then it disappeared from the spec. In my opinion, this was 
>> one of the more important roles included in ARIA 1.1.
>> 
>> The text role implementations remain in both WebKit (Safari) and 
>> Blink (Google Chrome). We'd have too many sites break if we removed it.
>> 
>> That said, I'm looking to find more information about why it was 
>> removed or a CFC about its removal as I have been unable to find it.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> James
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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