Re: addition of HTML role requirement mappings

No. As I understood there's a suggestion to introduce ARIA table and table
cell roles duping HTML tables semantics. That was looking the bloat for me
since I don't see any use case for that.


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:24 PM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:

> Are you saying grids are the bloat, or the 1:1 mappings against html:table
> is the bloat?
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> On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:22 PM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> On Feb 21, 2014, at 5:17 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> 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:
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>> 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).
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>> strong semantics:
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>> table element     grid role
>> tbody element     rowgroup role
>> td element     gridcell role
>> tfoot element     rowgroup role
>> thead element     rowgroup role
>> tr element     row role
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>> implicit semantics:
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>> th element     gridcell role     Role must be either columnheader,
>> rowheader, or gridcell
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>> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/5b5ad72b8e7bb36ab863effc942829eef82fe3c4#commitcomment-5449710
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>> Regards
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>> SteveF
>> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
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Received on Friday, 21 February 2014 18:33:40 UTC