[Bug 26135] is role=status correct for output element?

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26135

--- Comment #7 from alexander surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com> ---
Both examples given at w3c [1] make me think that live region polite is
suitable on the output element, the first example is calculation result updated
on user input, the second one is some update coming from remote server. On the
other hand the spec defines the element as "the output element represents the
result of a calculation or user action", user action use cases are rather live
regions, result calculation use cases are dual. For example, James's example
from comment #2 is no live region case.

Since the author can control live regions by aria-live attribute on output
element then the whole point is how authors use (or misuses) the element. If
most cases don't need live region then of course we don't need to expose it.
However this statement feels like sort of contradiction to the output
definition and examples given by the spec.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#the-output-element

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Received on Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:10:23 UTC