Re: aria-level a required property for role="heading" or a supported property with an RFC SHOULD for authors

My counter-argument to this is that if a developer of a component does 
not know the heading level of the content (which is a real problem 
especially in legacy applications which are being retro-fitted) then by 
making aria-level required we are forcing them to either guess at the 
heading level, or not mark it up as a heading.
In my opinion if the developer doesn't know what heading level to put 
they are better to leave the level out rather than guess in order to 
pass a validator.

Regards,
James

On 6/18/2015 12:31 PM, Steve Faulkner wrote:
> >We would like list feedback as to whether this should required or 
> rather have an RFC 2119 SHOULD for its use as a supported property in 
> role "heading".
>
> +1 to aria-level being a required property, not requiring does not 
> lead to a better outcome as it  allows the use of  headings without 
> levels removing all notion of heading heirarchy.
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> SteveF
> Current Standards Work @W3C 
> <http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/>
>
> On 18 June 2015 at 18:26, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com 
> <mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com>> wrote:
>
>     The ARIA task force had issue that pertained to making aria-level
>     a required property vs. a supported property for role="heading".
>
>     We would like list feedback as to whether this should required or
>     rather have an RFC 2119 SHOULD for its use as a supported property
>     in role "heading".
>
>     Please see the minutes of the discussion:
>     _http://www.w3.org/2015/06/18-aria-minutes.html_
>
>
>     Rich Schwerdtfeger
>
>

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Regards, James

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