Re: Question about role values

They are valid XHTML roles, but the HTML validator may flag them as errors. 

On Mar 31, 2014, at 7:12 AM, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com> wrote:

> You know how sometimes as soon as you press send you realize the question asked was idiotic?  Of course the values in section 3.1 are legitimate roles.  Ignore me.
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> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com> wrote:
> I was looking at the vocab document today [1] and noticed that the list of roles is divided into a short list that came from the original XHTML work (section 3.1) and a list that came from the ARIA work (section 3.2).  I guess my question is "are the roles in section 3.1 recognized by ATs?"  I imagine they are not.  And if not, we should probably say so in the vocab document.
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab
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