22948 2013-08-14 00:46:15 +0000 [AAPI]: clarify mappings for <link> 2014-05-18 22:29:35 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML a11y APIs (editor: Steve Faulkner, Cynthia Shelly) unspecified All All RESOLVED FIXED a11y P2 normal --- 1 jason jason mark.sadecki+w3c mike public-html-admin public-html-bugzilla public-html-wg-issue-tracking surkov.alexander sideshowbarker+html-a11y-api oldest_to_newest 92019 0 jason 2013-08-14 00:46:15 +0000 Should expressly indicate mappings for <link> elements that act as hyperlinks (mapped something like normal hyperlinks?), and those that act as external resource links (not mapped?). 92104 1 surkov.alexander 2013-08-15 18:59:04 +0000 can you give an example when <link> acts as a normal hyperlink please? 92113 2 jason 2013-08-15 20:48:15 +0000 If a <link> has an @href and a certain @rel value, it creates a hyperlink. It doesn't act as a "normal" hyperlink. If the <link> has a @rel, it is restricted to the <head>. [1] Hyperlinks are "generally exposed to the user by the user agent so that the user can cause the user agent to navigate to those resources, e.g. to visit them in a browser or download them." [2] For a <link> that creates a hyperlink, I'm assuming that if this were to be exposed to the user, it would be via some additional browser UI or functionality. As such, in either case (hyperlink or external resource link), the <link> is not mapped via the accessibility API. So we can keep a single entry for <link> "Not mapped" across the board. Does that make sense? [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/document-metadata.html#the-link-element [2] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/links.html#hyperlink 92186 3 surkov.alexander 2013-08-16 18:19:12 +0000 it sounds reasonable, we may want to add a comment saying that 106298 4 jason 2014-05-18 22:29:35 +0000 (In reply to alexander surkov from comment #3) > it sounds reasonable, we may want to add a comment saying that All browsers set <link> to display:none by default and don't map it. The mapping doc now reflects this. https://github.com/w3c/html-api-map/commit/182fa59ecc06c7038d51fb57ae24b6ee5b0691b6