21748 2013-04-19 02:51:41 +0000 Incorrectly identifies role="search" on a section element as being a validation error 2015-08-23 07:07:39 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML Checker General unspecified PC Windows NT CLOSED FIXED P2 major --- 1 pjackson28 mike+validator contributor mike www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 86382 0 pjackson28 2013-04-19 02:51:41 +0000 Until recently role="search" on a section element passed HTML5 validation. Without any change to the HTML markup, all of a sudden pages that passed HTML5 validation now throw the following error: Error Line 62, Column 23: Bad value search for attribute role on element section. <section role="search"><div id="wet-srchbx"><h2>Search</h2> (used http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/demos/index-eng.html for this example) Looking at the W3C HTML5 candidate recommendation, the latest W3C HTML5.1 draft and even the WHATWG HTML living standard they all indicate that role="search" is acceptable on a section element. Here are the relevant sections in each of those documents: HTML5: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/dom.html#sec-implicit-aria-semantics HTML5.1: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/dom.html#sec-implicit-aria-semantics HTML living standard: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/elements.html#wai-aria Please correct the validator so it no longer incorrectly identifies role="search" on a section element as being a validation error. Note that this bug also affects the Nu Markup validator and Validator.nu. 86420 1 mike 2013-04-20 14:16:47 +0000 Fixed in the validator sources. I'll push the change to the validator later today. 86433 2 pjackson28 2013-04-21 01:24:24 +0000 Just checked and the pages are validating correctly again. Thank you for fixing the issue so quickly! 113678 3 ian 2014-10-23 22:37:11 +0000 *** Bug 27149 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***