13291 2011-07-18 21:50:59 +0000 it doesn't make sense for <button> to be exposed as a link or radio button; it would just confuse users told to "click the button" 2011-12-20 17:00:33 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#table-aria-weak a11y, a11ytf, aria P3 normal --- 1 contributor cyns cooper eoconnor ian laura.lee.carlson mike public-html-a11y public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 51247 0 contributor 2011-07-18 21:50:59 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#table-aria-weak Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#table-aria-weak Comment: it doesn't make sense for <button> to be exposed as a link or radio button; it would just confuse users told to "click the button" Posted from: 216.239.45.4 by ian@hixie.ch User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.803.0 Safari/535.1 52519 1 mike 2011-08-04 05:02:13 +0000 mass-moved component to LC1 54525 2 ian 2011-08-10 01:11:37 +0000 It would also be confusing for it to be a checkbox menu item. 57258 3 ian 2011-09-23 19:43:19 +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. 57260 4 contributor 2011-09-23 19:46:40 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r6574. Check-in comment: tweak authoring conformance requirements to prevent some meaningless combinations http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6573&to=6574