Re: question about ARIA in HTML 5 spec text - implied use on elements not listed from Ian Hickson on 2009-09-02 (wai-xtech@w3.org from September 2009)

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 01:04:12 +0000 (UTC)
To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0909020103270.6775@hixie.dreamhostps.com>

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Steven Faulkner wrote:
> 
> forgive me, but I don't see what the issue is, if a h1 has an implied 
> aria semantic of role="heading" aria-level="1" and so on for h2-h6 could 
> you explain the issue further please.

I didn't realise that implied sections didn't need to be exposed, only the 
headings. I've updated the spec to expose the outline using aria-level.

Cheers,
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