Re: [AAPI] role=""

Hi Victor,

Hahaha! Seriously though, I guess the main thing is whether the browser 
should map it to something like an IA2_ROLE_UNKNOWN or not. If we take 
the example brought to our attention by James Teh, if an author were to 
do this:

<body role="">

If we mapped this to a role on the native platform side, the AT would 
probably not create a virtual buffer, assuming that it is an interactive 
element, which is probably not the case.

cheers,
David

On 8/20/09 1:50 PM, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> Hmmm, wouldn't that be the case anyway? What happens now?
> We could also define a role of "" whose purpose it would be not to do
> anything.<LOL>
>
>
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> On 20/08/2009 18:36, David Bolter wrote:
>    
>> If an author (strangely) includes a role="", I'm thinking we can treat
>> it the same as if the role is not specified at all. Thoughts?
>>      
>
> Makes sense to me.
>
> Would be nice if the WAI-ARIA spec defined that behavior. :)
>
> --
> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
>
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