Re: role="text" and text frames

I'm even more convinced that static text is the more correct role 
recently, especially because ATK made the same decision.

That said, I'd argue that IA2_ROLE_TEXTFRAME should never be treated as 
inherently block. NVDA certainly never does this; it always makes that 
decision based on the display object attribute.

Jamie

On 20/01/2016 6:47 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
> Jamie and Alex,
> We reviewed this topic and we agree with Jamie that role="text" should 
> map to a static text role:
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2015Sep/0017.html
> The reason is that IA2 text frames are treated as separate blocks by 
> ATs such as when role="presentation" being applied to tables where the 
> fallout is TDs become IA2_ROLE_TEXTFRAME.
> If we were to treat role="text" as a separate block then it would not 
> be read inline with the surrounding text.
> Rich
>
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
>

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