Re: Action 2044

PS, anyone following along on the mailing list may also want to read the
discussion that has been made via line-comments in the GitHub commit record:
https://github.com/w3c/aria/commit/f53ed80e314bb0437a1e1c152b902246b8099214

On 3 May 2016 at 20:14, Amelia Bellamy-Royds <amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Some general comments:
>
> 1)
> I don't like calling this "Overriding Presentational Roles".  That
> suggests that presentational roles are there by default and the author is
> intentionally over-riding them.  That's not what we're describing: we're
> describing cases where an author-supplied role of presentation/none is
> invalid and ignored.
>
> I would change the heading to something like "Conflicts with Other Element
> Semantics" or "Incompatible Use of Presentational Roles".  The first
> paragraph could then be something like:
>
> "The presentational roles only neutralize implicit semantics from the host
> language. There are a number of ways in which author-supplied semantics,
> including other WAI-ARIA attributes, can cause an explicit or inherited
> presentational role to be invalid and therefore ignored."
>
>
> 2)
> I would still prefer that this be a stand-alone section, rather than
> tucked into the description of the presentation role.  The section is long
> enough.  It may now have a link-able ID, but it doesn't show up in the
> table of contents.
>
> It seems to me it is more equivalent to the section on conflicts with host
> language semantics, although in this case we are also discussing conflicts
> between different types of ARIA semantics.
>
>
> 3)
> Does this section also apply to elements that are presentational because
> of an ancestor with a "children are presentational" role? If so, it should
> be clearly stated.  If not, we need rules elsewhere for what to do if there
> are interactive elements as a child of a button, img, or similar role.
>
>
> 4)
> Does this section also apply to elements that are presentational because
> of host native semantics (e.g., a <span>)? What role gets applied if global
> ARIA attributes or interactivity force such an element to be included?
>
>
> On 26 April 2016 at 14:59, Rich Schwerdtfeger <schwer@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I modified the role=“presentation” section to separate out the overriding
>> of role “presentation” so that it may be referenced by the SVG and Core
>> AAMs:
>>
>>
>> https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/action2044/aria/aria.html#override_presentation_none
>>
>> Let me know if you have any issues.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> Rich Schwerdtfeger
>> Round Rock, TX
>>
>>
>