Re: Okay - I admit it - I HATE Implicit Value for Role

I agree. Perhaps raise an issue?

Matt King
IBM Senior Technical Staff Member
I/T Chief Accessibility Strategist
IBM BT/CIO - Global Workforce and Web Process Enablement 
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From:   Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
To:     "W3C WAI Protocols & Formats" <public-pfwg@w3.org>, 
Date:   03/26/2015 04:22 PM
Subject:        Okay - I admit it - I HATE Implicit Value for Role
Sent by:        ahby@aptest.com



In ARIA 1.1 [1] there is a table row in some rows entitled "Implicit Value 
for Role".  

I have two problems with this.  

First, wow, that name is awful.  It implies (apologies for the pun) that 
it is about a value for role.  It is not.  

Second, when there is content (which is rare) it says things like "Default 
for aria-live is assertive."  That's probably correct, but I need more.  
Why is this the case?  And does it convey this to subclasses of the role 
if there are any?  Enquiring minds want to know.

Sorry if this sounds like I am trivializing this.  I don't mean to.  This 
category of information about roles is confusing.  And I don't feel like 
this is an area where we really want confusion.


[1] http://w3c.github.io/aria/aria/aria.html

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Shane McCarron
Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.