Using HTML form controls and links (Success Criterion 4.1.2 (Name, Role, Value))

Hi Rich, Michael,

 

is 

 

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20081211/H91
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20081211/H91> 

 

absolutely NORMATIVE regarding Success Criterion 4.1.2 (Name, Role,
Value)
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#ensure-compat-rsv> ?

 

For instance, do I violate WCAG 2.0 when I decide NOT to use a <select>
statement for a combo in my application, 

and choose instead an input with an associated button and ARIA-Markup?

 

<strong>

 With other words, is applied ARIA an 1:1 alternative to
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20081211/H91
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20081211/H91> ?

</strong>

 

Anything else will lead to BIG discussions. This is a serious question. 

I think industry wants questions like these covered and clarified
because you can easily derive legal implications from this.

 

In case you are NOT the right persons to ask: Who will that be?

 

Also, it would help if in the ARIA spec a respective clarification could
be added.

 

Best Regards

Stefan