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"The hgroup element does not have strong native semantics or default implicit ARIA semantics. User agents must not implement accessibility layer semantics for the hgroup element that obfuscates or modifies the semantics of its children." http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: accepted Change Description:see https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/c47ea2b4e32aa5dce208a5165186297bdddcc38b Rationale: although hgroup is obsolete user agents still need to know how to map it.