[Bug 23044] New: wonder if we should allow role="presentation" on a <a>

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23044

            Bug ID: 23044
           Summary: wonder if we should allow role="presentation" on a <a>
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Windows NT
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Using ARIA in HTML
          Assignee: faulkner.steve@gmail.com
          Reporter: david100@sympatico.ca
        QA Contact: dave.null@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-bugzilla@w3.org

Interesting example

http://lassonde.yorku.ca/

There are several accessibility problems on the page, but there is an
interesting use of presentation. In the drop down menu,(discover, apply,
students etc) they use a jquery drop down called superfish. They have added
role "presentation" to each of the top level menu items, because they are not
links to destinations, activating them opens the menu item below it.

The menu itself can be tabbed through item by item... and they have given the
top menu item a role of presentation so AT will not activate the # link which
forces a page reload, 

We have in our table for using wai aria that the <a> tag should not be given a
role of presentation. I wonder if this above might be a valid use case. It
seems to read fine in JAWS, VO, and mobile.

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Received on Thursday, 22 August 2013 22:48:03 UTC