12557 2011-04-26 09:24:42 +0000 add heading to the list of allowed roles for hx's 2011-08-10 01:06:15 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified All Windows NT RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 faulkner.steve ian brunoaiss ian jfoliot mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 47691 0 faulkner.steve 2011-04-26 09:24:42 +0000 the spec does not list headings as allowed roles for hx's example "h1 element that does not have an hgroup ancestor heading role, with the aria-level property set to the element's outline depth Role must be either link, menuitem, menuitemcheckbox, menuitemradio, tab, or treeitem" for every other element that has a default role, the default role is allowed. suggest adding heading to the list of allwoed roles for h1 to h6 that do not have an hgroup ancestor. example: "Role must be either heading, link, menuitem, menuitemcheckbox, menuitemradio, tab, or treeitem" 47692 1 brunoaiss 2011-04-26 09:26:21 +0000 Why should that be done? 47693 2 brunoaiss 2011-04-26 09:27:35 +0000 (In reply to comment #1) > Why should that be done? I don0t understand well enugh 47694 3 brunoaiss 2011-04-26 09:28:28 +0000 (In reply to comment #1) > Why should that be done? I don't understand what are you stating well enough 47695 4 faulkner.steve 2011-04-26 12:05:58 +0000 (In reply to comment #1) > Why should that be done? take a look at the follwoing section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/content-models.html#wai-aria (note: pointing to whatg as HTML5 has not been updated yet.) for any element that has a 'Default implied ARIA semantic' (column 2 of table 2) that role is specifically allowed in the 'Restrictions' (column 3 of table 2) so unless there is a reasonable technical epxlanation why h1-h6 should be different then the default role should also be explicitly allowed on these elements. 52513 5 mike 2011-08-04 05:02:09 +0000 mass-moved component to LC1 54521 6 ian 2011-08-10 01:05:30 +0000 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 diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. 54522 7 contributor 2011-08-10 01:06:15 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r6402. Check-in comment: <h1> is allowed to have its default role. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6401&to=6402