Re: The use of aria-readonly on contenteditable elements

For what it's worth, the general HTML rules for interactive content within
an editable element seem rather unclear.

I couldn't find any rules in the HTML spec, but based on browser testing a
button still receives a click event, but a clicked link is not
followed  (same results in Firefox, Chrome, and Edge).  Demo in JSBin:
https://output.jsbin.com/rakakokako

However, you are certainly correct that visual users get all the other
semantic hints (layout, font, size, color) of the markup, regardless of
it's editable state.

On 9 May 2016 at 15:18, Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com> wrote:
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> If content is editable but not in edit mode, you really don’t have a
> textbox; you have semantic content. Screen reader users should be able to
> read it like any other content … everyone else can, right? They should be
> able to follow a link, right? Can’t everyone else do so? Or, are links
> inside of contenteditable broken for everyone?
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