Regarding role=generic and AccName

Hi,
Are div and span tags the only elements that are implicitly mapped as generic? These are the only ones called out in the 1.2 spec.

I was looking to see if there was any correlation with the ARIA in HTML spec for these elements and couldn't find any.

E.G. If div and span are generic, what are these implicitly meant to be?

A without href
Abbr
Address
Area without href
Audio
B
Bdi
Bdo
Blockquote
Br
Canvas
Caption
Cite
Code
Col
Colgroup
Data
Del
Dl
Em
Embed
Figcaption
Hgroup
I
Iframe
Ins
Kbd
Label
Legend
Map
Mark
Meter
Object
P
Picture
Pre
Q
Rp
Rt
Ruby
S
Samp
Slot
Small
Strong
Sub
Sup
Time
Track
U
Var
Video
Wbr

Note this is simply a list of ambiguous elements that match no implicit role mapping according to the spec at
https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/

What I would like to know is which ones, if any, should also be designated as implicitly generic, since this will impact which elements are allowed to have accessible names or not when aria-labelledby or aria-label is applied without an explicit role.

Thanks,
Bryan




Bryan Garaventa
Principal Accessibility Architect
Level Access, Inc.
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