On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:57:00 +0200, Domenic Denicola
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Steve, thanks greatly for your help. It's clear now that I should
have reached out to you for your expertise directly before being very
wrong on a public mailing list :)
From: Steve Faulkner <[email protected]>
It appears (please correct me) you have made the assumption that
'strong native semantics' for roles is a UA requirement? This is not
the case (in the W3C HTML spec [1] at least, can't speak for where the
WHATWG spec has gone in defining ARIA in HTML), they are author
conformance requirements.
Yes, I was misled about that pretty badly. That changes things, as it
means there are no non-overridable roles or stoperties (as you show with
<hr role="menuitem">).
States and properties can be non-overridable, though, as I understand it.
[[
When a host language declares a WAI-ARIA [state/property] attribute to be
in direct semantic conflict with a native attribute for a given element,
user agents MUST ignore the WAI-ARIA attribute and instead use the host
language attribute with the same implicit semantic.
]]
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/host_languages#host_general_conflict_header
From my reading though, the default implicit ARIA semantics are still UA
requirements, right?
Yes.
[...]
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Simon Pieters
Opera Software
