Yes, roles and children's roles (col, row, etc) are basically masked but data and content are still presented. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 25, 2013, at 7:07 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote: > role=presentation removes the role of the element it is on (and the roles of any required child elements) http://rawgithub.com/w3c/aria-in-html/master/index.html#use-of-role-presentation > > -- > > Regards > > SteveF > HTML 5.1 > > > On 25 November 2013 12:02, Bailey, Bruce <Bailey@access-board.gov> wrote: >> Thanks Sailesh. I thought aria role=presentation causes AT to ignore the element. So would this not hide the table and the content therein? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sailesh Panchang [mailto:spanchang02@yahoo.com] >> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 7:54 PM >> To: WCAG >> Cc: Bailey, Bruce >> Subject: Re: WG discussion: Nov 5, 2013: role=group technique >> >> Bruce, >> With respect to your comment on use of role=presentation on the table with credit cards in example#2: >> It is a layout table and role=presentation helps to remove any ambiguity in its interpretation by AT. >> NVDA, for instance will expose it as a table in FF if the role is absent. >> >> Regards, >> Sailesh >
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