[Bug 8000] ARIA roles added to the a element should be conforming in HTML5

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8000


steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>  2009-10-23 07:46:17 ---
I have raised an issue in the HTML WG tracker 
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/85

(In reply to comment #1)
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> Status: Rejected
> Change Description: no spec change
> Rationale: I concurr with Thomas in this e-mail:
>    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Oct/0707.html
> It seems to me that we _should_ be calling authors out on this kind of mistake.
> Just because people do something doesn't mean we should make it valid — after
> all, we made <font> invalid, along with many other things. Conformance is about
> trying to advise authors to do the right thing.
> I have added text to the spec that encourages conformance checkers to be very
> careful about how they complain about these issues, by the way, so that authors
> aren't encouraged to remove ARIA support but are instead encouraged to use the
> right elements.


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