Hi Mario
Role=presentation has no effect upon the content of an element it only removes the role of the element it is applied to and any required children of that element.
<ul><li><h1>heading text</h1></ul>
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On 22 Jul 2011, at 06:16, "Mario Batusic" <Mario.Batusic@jku.at> wrote:
> Hi Jon!
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> If so, than the people from the HTML5 development have not understood the role=presentation from the wai-aria spec. It serves for signaling to the ATs that the contents of an element is a pure presentational thing. For this reason hide the screen readers the complete content of such an element from the users.
> Ciao Mario
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> >>> Jon Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com> schrieb am 21.07.11 um 21:02 in Nachricht <D3BF41A6-282D-4E97-9231-8FF781AAC87A@ssbbartgroup.com>:
> At one point the border attribute and role=presentation were in the draft as differentiators.
>
> Jon
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> On Jul 21, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I was reading the editors draft of HTML 5, and they don't seem to have
> > a deterministic way to distinguish layout tables from data tables.
> > Did I just read that wrong?
> >
> > Wayne
> >
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