Re: text role removal

Thank you Matt. 

We will take this up again in the next version of ARIA. We need to work on lock down and automated testing. 

Rich

> On Jun 23, 2016, at 3:54 PM, Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> James,
> 
> As I recall, the fundamental objections were related to both the utility and
> the risks of the role. In all the use cases that were presented, all the
> screen reader users in the working group were in agreement that the text
> role did not provide better accessibility than the image role. In every use
> case we examined, either the text role was hiding something that was useful
> or the image role was as good or even better fit.
> 
> There were also questions surrounding what should happen with selection for
> copy and paste and how AT could access appropriate context actions. And,
> there were concerns in the mapping discussion with respect to the list of
> conditions that should override the text role. 
> 
> Matt
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Craig [mailto:jcraig@apple.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 4:45 AM
> To: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>
> Cc: Birkir Gunnarsson <birkir.gunnarsson@deque.com>; Accessible Rich
> Internet Applications Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>; Steve Faulkner
> <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: text role removal
> 
> 
>> On Jun 20, 2016, at 1:01 PM, Bryan Garaventa
> <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> We addressed this point prior to it's inclusion in the spec, and even
> included some serious author warnings.
> 
> The resolution of that discussion was that the benefits of tools used
> correctly outweigh the risks of their potential misuse. In other words, the
> occasional smashed finger doesn't negate the usefulness of a hammer.
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
>

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