[Bug 20696] ARIA: Clarify if features with strong native semantics also may have presentation role.

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20696

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

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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #4 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> This solution does not touch the problem which the bug points out.
> 
> In comment #0 I suggest consulting with Hixie. But it is enough to read the
> first sentence in the second paragraph of the WAI-ARIA section of the WHATwg
> spec, which cleary says that presentation features with strong native
> semantics can take the presentation role:[1]
> 
> ]] 
> Authors must not set the ARIA role and aria-* attributes in a manner that
> conflicts with the semantics described in the following table, except that
> the presentation role may always be used.
> [[
> 
> This sentence does not exist in the HTMLWG version. But if the HTMLWG spec
> gets the same sentence, then I shall consider the bug as fixed. To add this
> sentence, can hardly be described as a "major change".
> 
> [1]
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/elements.
> html#wai-aria

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Status: rejected
Change Description: none

I do not agree that authors should apply role=presentation to focusable
elements, as doing so leads to a poor user experience, which is why Using ARIA
in HTML[1] provides more granular guidance as to use of role=presentation.

[1]
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/aria-unofficial/raw-file/tip/index.html#recommendations-table

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