aria-ACTION-2024: Talk to Steve Faulkner about limiting the role of "text" to images in HTML from Richard Schwerdtfeger on 2016-02-23 (public-html-a11y@w3.org from February 2016)

From: Richard Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:00:53 -0600
To: ARIA Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>
Cc: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>, public-html-a11y@w3.org
Message-Id: <1E35EB97-6550-43E9-B279-2FB6D352B2A4@gmail.com>

I had a call with Steve today that explained the concerns about not restricting the role of “text” to <img> in HTML. He agreed that its used should be restricted to <img> and so I file an issue on the ARIA in HTML specification:

https://github.com/w3c/html-aria/issues/26

This completes my action item. 

Rich

Received on Tuesday, 23 February 2016 17:01:24 UTC