suggest deprecating alertdialog role in ARIA 1.1

>From a discussion ensuing after I filed a bug against Firefox [1], it
appears that the alertdialog role is not differentiated from
role=dialog  by AT, and not interoperably implemented in a meaningful
sense. If this is the case I would suggest it be removed from ARIA as
it does not appear to be useful.


[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788428
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Received on Thursday, 6 September 2012 14:34:50 UTC