[Bug 10450] Allow lists to be used as menus or tab sets

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10450

--- Comment #18 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> 2010-10-14 08:35:44 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #17)
> Nobody is asking the ARIA spec to list every case. All I'm saying is that it
> should describe the processing of roles in the specification. Right now, ARIA
> does not say that role=presentational means that you skip the element in the
> DOM when determining what the child of an element is, all it does is remove the
> element from the accessible tree which is presumably what is exposed to ATs
> (note that this is _not_ the same as the tree that has the ARIA annotations —
> it's what the tree with ARIA annotations is turned into).
> 
> I respect everyone's opinion that this is what they want ARIA to say, but as
> editor I have to make sure that the HTML spec is actually compatible with what
> ARIA actually says, otherwise we are back to the world where the specs have to
> have "priests" to "interpret" them like holy texts, and there's no chance of
> getting interoperability by just following the specs.

nobody else (authors or implementors) appears to have a problem understanding
how it works, if you have a problem, please file a bug against the ARIA spec.
Note: this bug has been escalated as part of issue 129
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/129, so you can argue your case to the
HTML WG, as to why role="presentaion" should not be conforming on list
elements, in the form of a null change proposal.

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Received on Thursday, 14 October 2010 08:35:46 UTC