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Bug 16761 - [AAPI]: area (no href attribute) MSAA ROLE_SYSTEM_TEXT
Summary: [AAPI]: area (no href attribute) MSAA ROLE_SYSTEM_TEXT
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML a11y APIs (editor: Steve Faulkner, Cynthia Shelly) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: alexander surkov
QA Contact: HTML a11y API spec bugbot
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Keywords: a11y
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Reported: 2012-04-17 12:33 UTC by alexander surkov
Modified: 2013-08-16 19:12 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description alexander surkov 2012-04-17 12:33:42 UTC 
"area (no href attribute)"

similar to bug 16629. Firefox doesn't expose STATE_LINKED on it but keeps ROLE_LINK.
Comment 1 Jason Kiss 2013-03-24 01:25:10 UTC 
See comments on bug 16629. Why does Firefox keep ROLE_SYSTEM_LINK on <area> with no @href, since it no longer represents a link to something else, as per the definition of ROLE_SYSTEM_LINK? [1] Wouldn't ROLE_SYSTEM_TEXT be more appropriate?

Regarding Internet Explorer's implementation, while it uses ROLE_SYSTEM_TEXT, the use of STATE_SYSTEM_LINKED for <area> elements with and without @href doesn't seem correct.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd373608%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#ROLE_SYSTEM_LINK
Comment 2 alexander surkov 2013-08-16 19:12:30 UTC 
was changed to IA2_ROLE_SHAPE in bug 12703