[Bug 23545] section should only map to region if the section has an accessible name

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23545

--- Comment #12 from alexander surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com> ---
It seems the problem here people started to use section element in means of div
element (which is wrong, i.e. an author error), section is mapped to ARIA
region what makes AT to announce each section. So we discuss here how to fix
author errors. Another example of author error would be what if people started
to use role="region" as they use section element. This probably won't happen
but it's dual example to what we observe with section element.

So we have two alternatives:
1) AT could ignore section with no name (it makes sense if there is no use case
for these sections)
2) The browser exposes such section element as ordinal div (Steve's suggestion)

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Received on Friday, 22 November 2013 15:24:11 UTC