the presentation role

• From: bryan rasmussen <rasmussen.bryan@gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 21:37:08 +0200
• To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
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On MDN https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/ARIA_Techniques/Using_the_presentation_role
it says

The presentation role is used to remove semantic meaning from an
element and any of its related child elements.

and then in an important looking blue box it says "Note: Opinions may
differ on how assistive technology should handle this technique. The
information provided above is one of those opinions and therefore not
normative."

that's nice because I could have sworn that I have used different
screen readers in which the role="presentation" is not read - but in
VoiceOver currently the role = presentation is read.

This makes me wonder - is there a way to remove content from a
screenreader reading it that will also leave it otherwise visible and
available to keyboard navigation?

And two what are these various ways that other assistive technologies
handle role="presentation"

Received on Thursday, 8 July 2021 19:39:04 UTC