Hi Maciej, you are right, i think it does the conformaing roles need to be limited, I have modiifed the change proposal to reflect this: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/ARIAonanchor#Details thanks fo the feedback, any further comments welcome. regards stevef On 2 March 2010 08:11, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > > On Feb 26, 2010, at 4:20 AM, Steven Faulkner wrote: > > Have completed the change proposal for HTML WG tracker Issue 85 [ > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/85] > > change proposal: Allow the a element to have ARIA role attribute values > other than link > > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/ARIAonanchor#Negative_Effects > > any feedback welcome > > > <chair hat off> > > I'd like to check with you whether this proposal is really doing what you > intend. In Details it says: > > Remove the first row of the first table in the section 3.2.6 Annotations > for assistive technology products (ARIA). > > code/content to be removed: > > <tr><td><a href="text-level-semantics.html#the-a-element">a</a> element > that represents a > <a href="interactive-elements.html#hyperlink">hyperlink</a></td><td>link role</td></tr> > > > So that will have two effects: > > 1) <a> will not be considered to have any default role at all; it will no > longer be considered role="link" by default. > 2) Any role whatsoever is allowed on <a>, even dubious things like landmark > roles, or role="textbox". > > Was that really your intention? I think maybe not. > > I think if you remove <a> from the "Strong native semantics" table, then > you should add it to the second table, which defines "Default implied ARIA > semantics". I suspect you probably intend for <a> to have at least a default > role of "link", and perhaps you also may want to limit the set of roles > allowed. I understand from your Change Proposal and your bug that you > definitely want the "button", "tab" and "menuitem" roles allowed. But I > suspect roles like "document" or "grid" would indicate an author error. > > Note: I'm not necessarily taking a position on whether this should be > changed at all. I saw what seemed like decent arguments for both sides of > the issue in the bug. I'm just trying to help you improve your proposal. > > Regards, > Maciej > > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.htmlReceived on Tuesday, 2 March 2010 10:55:51 UTC
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