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

Personally I'm in favor of role="null", since it's short, simple, and 
describes exactly what it does, by nullifying a particular tag without 
hiding it from the accessibility tree.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason White" <jason@jasonjgw.net>
To: <wai-xtech@w3.org>; <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 7:11 PM
Subject: 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


> James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the feedback Suzanne. Whether or not “none” is the best
>> replacement is irrelevant. The confusion is not around images. It it 
>> around
>> the use of role="presentation" on other elements. For example:
>>
>> The following marking: <h4 role="presentation">Foo</h4>
>>
>> is effectively the same as: <div>Foo</div>
>>
>
> Perhaps role="generic" would be more descriptive for the uninitiated.
>
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 28 January 2014 01:25:15 UTC