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Re: question about ARIA in HTML 5 spec text - implied use on elements not listed

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:58:54 +0200
To: "Steven Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "HTMLWG WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Message-ID: <op.uy9vsgfv64w2qv@annevk-t60>
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:55:05 +0200, Steven Faulkner  
<faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi anne,
> so for
>   h1<http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/ARIA/html5-elements1.html#the-h1-h2-h3-h4-h5-and-h6-elements>element
> that does not have an
> hgroup<http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/ARIA/html5-elements1.html#the-hgroup-element>ancestor
> heading
> role
> the user agent must implement this exposing an aria role="heading"?

That's what the specification says, no? (Note that the role attribute will  
not be in the DOM. This is just how it's mapped to AT.)


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Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/
Received on Wednesday, 26 August 2009 13:59:45 UTC

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