Re: text role removal

Clarifying my concern with the text role removal. Apologies that I did not notice the change sooner.

My objection was not to an incomplete issue being postponed to ARIA 2.0. I objected to the removal of a *feature* that had been in the spec for years and was already implemented in two browsers. To my recollection, we never did that in ARIA 1.0. Furthermore, I'm not sure there is W3C precedent for removing a feature that has already met its exit criteria. 

It was one of the first features approved by the working group for ARIA 1.1, and had been in the spec for more than 2 years.
The related-but-separate "text range/selection/copy" issues had been discussed and punted to 2.0 during the Toronto Face-to-Face in January 2014.
2 of the 4 major browsers have implemented the feature.
The feature is used on a number of sites including major ones (I know of the iTunes Media Stores, for example)
There is no serious objection from one of the other vendors (e.g. "Not implementable on our platform.")

Therefore, the feature should not have been removed from the spec. More importantly, because of the above proofs, it should follow the HTML model, and be added back in, to match the Web as it is today.

James