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On 22 Jul 2011, at 09:06, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mario
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> 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.
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> <ul><li><h1>heading text</h1></ul>
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> Becomes
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> <h1>heading text</h1>
When role=presentation is added to the <ul role=presentation>
Because the <li> is a required child of ul so it inherits the presentation role, but h1 is not so its role is unaffected.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 22 Jul 2011, at 06:16, "Mario Batusic" <Mario.Batusic@jku.at> wrote:
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>> Hi Jon!
>>
>> 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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