Re: role="text" and text frames

Hi Alex,

That's my understanding.  I've already made the edits to the core-aam:
http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/core-aam/core-aam.html#role-map-text


On 2015-10-02 11:34 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
> Do I understand right that we go with textframe role because of this 
> example?
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Joseph Scheuhammer 
> <clown@alum.mit.edu <mailto:clown@alum.mit.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Jamie,
>
>     On 2015-09-23 7:55 PM, James Teh wrote:
>
>         On 24/09/2015 2:44 AM, Joseph Scheuhammer wrote:
>
>             If it matters, two use cases of role="text" entail that
>             caret navigation doesn't make sense.
>
>         Right. However, I see that there are cases where it *might*
>         make sense, such as this example from the spec:
>         <div role="text">
>           <p>I</p>
>           <p>like</p>
>           <p>turtles</p>
>         </div>
>         In that case, the accessible *does* need IAccessibleText. And
>         now things get confusing: should the AT expect IAccessibleText
>         or not for this role? Where IAccessibleText is present, an AT
>         certainly shouldn't just use the name.
>
>         FWIW, NVDA should handle either case with no problems as it is.
>
>
>     Cool.  I think there is enough here to fill in the role mapping
>     table with respect to IA2.
>

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