It's not said by the spec but could the author use custom value for @role
attribute and @aria-roledescription both, for example,
<div role="hyperbutton" aria-roledescription="hyperspace button">.

In that case extendedRole would be used to contain @role value,
localizedExtendedRole would expose value of aria-roledescription.

On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 7:22 PM, James Teh <ja...@nvaccess.org> wrote:

> It's technically not quite a match for localizedExtendedRole, as that
> would suggest there was an extendedRole. However, I
> thinklocalizedExtendedRole is still a better match than object attributes.
> It may be helpful to update the spec to note that localizedExtendedRole can
> be valid even if extendedRole is NULL.
>
> Jamie
>
>
> On 27/06/2015 7:47 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
>
>> ARIA 1.1 introduced aria-roledescription attribute which contains a
>> localized version of ARIA role. Would it be a match for
>> localizedExtendedRole or should we proceed with object attributes?
>> Thanks.
>> Alex.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/aria.html#aria-roledescription
>>
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