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ARIA has the presentational children consept: http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/complete#childrenArePresentational For content that is the child of an element with a role of type "childrenArePresentational", ARIA 1.0 says that user agents SHOULD NOT expose them. Any button, link, etc inside a <div role=img><a href=link>text</a></div>, would thus normally not be accessible to AT users. Pointing to that link via aria-labelledby/-describedby would also not activate its interactivity - I don't think ARIA has any means bring back the interactivity of such an element - other than removing the parent role with the childrenArePresentational effect. Validators should warn when it detects interactive/forms associated content inside elements with a role which has the chilrenArePresentatinoal effect as it could mean that the author unintendedly hide some interactive/forms related content. References: Internactive content: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/content-models#interactive-content-0 Form associated content http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/forms#form-associated-element
Bug triage sub-team thinks this is not a A11Y TF priority, can be worked out by original filer.
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mass-move component to LC1