aria-ISSUE-1048 (roledescription role limits): roledescription usage should not be limited to elements with defined ARIA roles [ARIA 1.1 Core Mapping Specification]

aria-ISSUE-1048 (roledescription role limits): roledescription usage should not be limited to elements with defined ARIA roles [ARIA 1.1 Core Mapping Specification]

http://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/track/issues/1048

Raised by: James Craig
On product: ARIA 1.1 Core Mapping Specification

The following requirement is overly restrictive:

User agents must not expose the aria-roledescription property if … The element to which aria-roledescription is applied does not have a valid WAI-ARIA role or does not have an implicit WAI-ARIA role semantic.

This would mean the feature could not be used on any markup element in any host language until such a time as ARIA defined an equivalent role. As we already know ARIA is well behind the current release of HTML, this is an overly restrictive limitation and should be removed.

Received on Wednesday, 19 October 2016 03:08:35 UTC