OK. Fair enough but you can also put a link around an entire table.
I can see both sides as links typically have only short pieces of text.
Freedom was more concerned about the fact that a link is a container for
content. They want to see some consistency.
Rich
Rich Schwerdtfeger
From: Léonie Watson <lwatson@paciellogroup.com>
To: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, "'Bryan Garaventa'"
<bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>
Cc: <cooper@w3.org>, "'PF'" <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Date: 09/01/2015 12:40 PM
Subject: RE: ACTION-1710: Rich Get with Freedom Scientific on our
solution for listitem roles
From: Richard Schwerdtfeger [mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com]
Sent: 01 September 2015 00:27
"Let me explain. In HTML an anchor tag can span lots of content. It is
essentially a container. You could in fact have paragraphs of text and
other links inside it."
The HTML spec states that an <a> element cannot contain other interactive
elements [1]. With thanks to Steve for pointing me to the right place,
the following is taken from the definition of the <a> element:
Content model: Transparent , but there must be no interactive content
descendant.
Léonie.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/text-level-semantics.html#the-a-element
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