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currently the WAI-ARIA section (http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/content-models.html#wai-aria) of the HTML5 spec contains the following: "Conformance checkers are encouraged to phrase errors such that authors are encouraged to use more appropriate elements rather than remove accessibility annotations. For example, if an a element is marked as having the button role, a conformance checker could say "Use a more appropriate element to represent a button, for example a button element or an input element" rather than "The button role cannot be used with a elements"." The example error is for use of a button role on the a element,this is not a conformance error in HTML5 so should not be used as an example. Modify the example so that it uses a role/element combination that is a conformance error: "Conformance checkers are encouraged to phrase errors such that authors are encouraged to use more appropriate elements rather than remove accessibility annotations. For example, if an input type="checkbox" element is marked as having the button role, a conformance checker could say "Use a more appropriate element to represent a button, for example a button element or an input type="button" element" rather than "The button role cannot be used with input type="checkbox" elements"."
The bug-triage sub-team does not condsider this bug to be TF priority.
mass-move component to LC1
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