Re: Summarizing the contentious history of re-opened PFWG-ISSUE-348: Consider renaming (now actually 'deprecating' in ARIA 1.1) role="presentation" to avoid avoid author confusion

Leif Halvard Silli, Sat, 1 Feb 2014 21:54:48 +0100:
>>> Some other options roughly in the lane, though I prefer "flatten":
>>> 
>>>  role="transparent"
>>>  role="plain"
>>>  role=“blank"
>> 
>> Blank is okay, but I still think none and null are closer to the truth.
> 
> We stick to our ideas.

So I think that flattens would ring more correct bells. What authors 
needs to learn is *what* aspects it flattens. That it doesn't flatten 
child elements that does not belong to that element’s structure (or 
which wording ARIA uses).
-- 
leif halvard silli

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