The editor made changes in the conformance ARIA role conformance
requirements on 2011-09-23:
http://html5.org/r/6574 <http://html5.org/r/6574%20>
This change contradicts the HTML working group consensus decision:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0005.html
The associated bug
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13291simply states:
"it doesn't make sense for <button> to be exposed as a link or radio button;
it would just confuse users told to "click the button" "
no further rationale was provided for the change.
I therefore request a revert of the change.
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with regards
Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG
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