If table and table cell ARIA roles are supposed to be a part of browser implementation then it looks like spec overbloating with no usecase. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:22 PM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote: > Yeah, I think this illustrates that we need to get table and cell roles in > soon for ARIA 1.1. cell and gridcell can probably just be aliases, but > table and grid are semantically different. > > > > On Feb 21, 2014, at 5:17 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > hixie has added some role requirements and restrictions in the whatwg spec > that will soon come up for cherry picking [1] to the HTML 5.1 spec. > previously we determined that some of the following were not appropriate, > so am asking for ARIA folk to review: > > note: implementers MUST map to these roles and authors are restricted to > applying the roles listed for each element (authors can also apply > role=presentation). > > strong semantics: > > table element grid role > tbody element rowgroup role > td element gridcell role > tfoot element rowgroup role > thead element rowgroup role > tr element row role > > > implicit semantics: > > th element gridcell role Role must be either columnheader, > rowheader, or gridcell > > > > [1] > https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/5b5ad72b8e7bb36ab863effc942829eef82fe3c4#commitcomment-5449710 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards > > SteveF > HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/> > >
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