[Bug 11798] It has been brought to my attention by some browser vendors that browsers don't actually implement accessibility API annotations exactly the way the ARIA spec says to; instead, they have default mappings from HTML directly to the accessibility APIs that t from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2011-01-19 (public-html-a11y@w3.org from January 2011)

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--- Comment #4 from Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> 2011-01-19 17:22:31 UTC ---
The comment in the subject is not accurate as to WebKit. We map elements and
attributes to generic roles and properties (matching ARIA whenever possible)
and then map those to a native API.

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