[REVIEW REQUEST] Action-1440: Fix issues associated with regions as landmarks from Joanmarie Diggs on 2015-01-29 (public-pfwg@w3.org from January 2015)

From: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:26:36 -0500
To: W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <54CA5F3C.9000901@igalia.com>

Hi all.

The changes related to Action-1440 have been merged into master. They
include:

  * Add the region role as a type of landmark role.
  * Add requirement that authors MUST give a region a brief label that
    describes the purpose of the content in the region.
  * Remove the accessible name property from the section role.
  * Change the superclass role from region to section for the following
    roles: alert, grid, landmark, list, log, status, and tabpanel.
  * Remove region as a superclass role of article, making document the
    only superclass role of article.
  * Updated and augmented documentation for the region and landmark
    roles.

Please review. Thanks!
http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/aria.html

--joanie

Received on Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:27:13 UTC