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

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:40:36 +0200, Steven Faulkner  
<faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi Ian,
> in the h1-h6 section it states:
>
> "These elements have a *rank* given by the number in their name. The
> h1<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/semantics.html#the-h1-h2-h3-h4-h5-and-h6-elements>element
> is said to have the highest rank, the
> h6<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/semantics.html#the-h1-h2-h3-h4-h5-and-h6-elements>element
> has the lowest rank, and two elements with the same name have equal
> rank."
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/semantics.html#the-h1-h2-h3-h4-h5-and-h6-elements
>
> if the implied aria semantics are added we get:
>
> "These elements have a *rank* given by the number in their name. The
> h1<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/semantics.html#the-h1-h2-h3-h4-h5-and-h6-elements>element
> (implied role="heading", aria-level="1") is said to have the highest
> rank, the  
> h6<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/semantics.html#the-h1-h2-h3-h4-h5-and-h6-elements>element
> (implied role="heading", aria-level="6") has the lowest rank, and
> two elements with the same name have equal rank."
>
> what is the issue?

In a scenario such as

   <body>
    <h1> ... </h1>
    <section>
     <h1> ... </h1>
    </section>
   </body>

the second h1 element is of level 2 per section 4.4.11 of HTML 5 (and  
should probably be exposed as such to AT). The rank of a heading is just a  
concept used to determine the headings exact level later in case people do  
weirder stuff. See the examples in that section.


-- 
Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/

Received on Thursday, 27 August 2009 07:48:35 UTC