ARIA and HTML document question about implicit headings from Bryan Garaventa on 2017-08-14 (public-aria@w3.org from August 2017)

From: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@levelaccess.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:49:11 +0000
To: ARIA Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>
Message-ID: <BN6PR03MB27859F857DC9EC45A644301DF28C0@BN6PR03MB2785.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>

Hi,
I noticed recently that according to the ARIA and HTML mapping tables, the use of aria-level is said to not be allowed on H1 through H6 elements, even though these implicitly map to role="heading".

Since supporting attributes like aria-pressed and aria-haspopup are accepted on other implicit elements like role="button", amongst other implicit role and attribute combinations, why is this one different?

Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
Level Access, Inc.
Bryan.Garaventa@LevelAccess.com
415.624.2709 (o)
www.LevelAccess.com

Received on Monday, 14 August 2017 16:49:40 UTC