[whatwg] [html5] r3657 - [acgiow] (2) First cut at ARIA integration.

Sat Aug 22 08:24:15 PDT 2009

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Simon Pieters<simonp at opera.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:11:29 +0200, <whatwg at whatwg.org> wrote:
>
>> Author: ianh
>> Date: 2009-08-21 18:11:28 -0700 (Fri, 21 Aug 2009)
>> New Revision: 3657
>>
>> Modified:
>>   index
>>   source
>> Log:
>> [acgiow] (2) First cut at ARIA integration.
>
>
>> +    <tr>
>> +     <td><code>html</code> element
>> +     <td><code title="attr-aria-role-document">document</code> role
>> +     <td>Role must be either <code
>> title="attr-aria-role-document">document</code> or <code
>> title="attr-aria-role-application">application</code>
>
> This should say "the body element" instead.
>
>
>   Root WAI-ARIA node
>
>      the <body> or <frameset> in HTML, or the document element in all
>      other languages.
>
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-implementation/#glossary

This does not appear to be correct, though, as AT-significant elements
may appear in the <head>.  For example, <title> may participate (if
made visible and given role=heading), and <link> elements similarly
have a role=link automatically.

~TJ