I support the revert.
Rich Schwerdtfeger
CTO Accessibility Software Group
From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Maciej Stachowiak
<mjs@apple.com>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>,
HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force
<public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
Date: 10/06/2011 06:08 AM
Subject: revert request for http://html5.org/r/6574
The editor made changes in the conformance ARIA role conformance
requirements on 2011-09-23:
http://html5.org/r/6574
This change contradicts the HTML working group consensus decision:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0005.html
The associated bug http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13291
simply states:
"it doesn't make sense for <button> to be exposed as a link or radio
button; it would just confuse users told to "click the button" "
no further rationale was provided for the change.
I therefore request a revert of the change.
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with regards
Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG
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