RE: Nested links (not related to children presentational issue in ARIA 1.1)

Agreed, this constitutes a WCAG 4.1.1 violation for HTML:

“elements are nested according to their specifications”

The HTML Nu Validator https://validator.w3.org/nu/

returns 2 errors for a nested link construct.

<a href=http://www.apple.com>Apple

<a href=”http://www.google.com”>Google</a>

</a>

“Error: Start tag a seen but an element of the same type was already open.”

And

Error: Stray end tag a.

 

 

 

 

From: Shane McCarron [mailto:shane@spec-ops.io] 
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 9:58 AM
To: Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>
Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com>; Fred Esch <fesch@us.ibm.com>; ARIA <public-aria@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Nested links (not related to children presentational issue in ARIA 1.1)

 

 

 

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org <mailto:cooper@w3.org> > wrote:

This thread was started on ARIA Admin, but it should be on the main WG list since it's a technical discussion. Attempting to move it with this message. Michael

 

On 23/06/2016 9:47 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:

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.  

 

 

No - they are expressly prohibited.  I mean - a browser might support it, but that behavior is undefined and the content is invalid: https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/textlevel-semantics.html#elementdef-a

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Shane McCarron

Projects Manager, Spec-Ops