- From: Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:25:45 +0800
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: David Bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Sounds so. If role attribute is absent or has empty value then there is no applicable ARIA role which should be mapped into role property of accessibility API. Alex. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Simon Pieters<simonp@opera.com> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:36:34 +0200, David Bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com> > 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? > > This seems to be what the ARIA spec says already. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#ua_role_identify > > This algorithm will fail to find a role both when the attribute is absent > and when it's the empty string. > > -- > Simon Pieters > Opera Software > >
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