aplogies missed a citation first timer around Dear Chairs, The html5 editor has made a conformance change to the a element in respect to theARIA roles that can be used. The conformance requirements present in the spec prior to the change were the result of this working group decision http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0005.html subsequently a bug was filed: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13265#c0 this bug proffers no new data or evidence, it simply states: "Should disallow <a> elements to be made into buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, tabs, or tree items, since those are all semantic abuse" On the baseis of the above comment the editor made the change. The rationale provided by the editor proffered no new data or evidence only vague staments about 'hurting accessibility' Vague unsubstantiated statements are not sufficient to override a working group decision, Changing the conformance requirements because "Hixie said so" is not a convincing reason as hixie himself [1] said so recently. I therefor request that this change be reverted ( http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6609&to=6610). If the editor can bring new data to the working group then of course the issue can be reconsidered [1] http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20111001#l-51 -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com | www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives - dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/ Web Accessibility Toolbar - www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html <http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html> <http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html>
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