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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13265 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|WONTFIX |FIXED --- Comment #3 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-10-02 05:12:27 UTC --- That isn't the point of ARIA. ARIA is primarily for developers creating custom widgets and other web application components. It allows authors to provide accessibility hooks for ATs in cases where the user agent would otherwise have nothing useful to provide. It is not intended for use by authors who are trying to convey the very semantics that HTML can already convey. In any case, having an AT label a link as being a button actually hurts accessibility, it doesn't improve it, as it makes it impossible for the user to understand instructions. For example, if they visit a page that has a link labeled as role=button, and they read instructions telling them to click on the link, they would not be able to find it, as they would be looking for a link and not a button. Similarly, labeling an interactive control such as a link as being a tree item would harm accessibility, as it would hide from the user the fact that the link could be activated and followed. Ergo, I am reopening this bug. EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Partially Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: However, the initial request is not entirely correct either. It does, to some extent, make sense for links to be used as tabs. So I've left that as conforming. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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