- From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:02:13 -0400
- To: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
James Craig wrote: > ... > 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. > The requirement in the Core-AAM is a reflection of the same restriction in the spec [1]: "User agents MUST NOT expose the aria-roledescription property if any of the following conditions exist: 1. 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 issue should be raised against the spec. [1] https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/CR_ARIA_1_1_0/aria/aria.html#aria-roledescription -- ;;;;joseph. 'Die Wahrheit ist Irgendwo da Draußen. Wieder.' - C. Carter -
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