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    <bug>
          <bug_id>8681</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2010-01-08 10:29:38 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>Separator menu items</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2010-10-04 14:46:19 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>HTML WG</product>
          <component>pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>PC</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>Windows NT</op_sys>
          <bug_status>VERIFIED</bug_status>
          <resolution>WONTFIX</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/interactive-elements.html#building-menus-and-tool-bars</bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords>a11y, a11ytf</keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Gez Lemon">gez.lemon</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</assigned_to>
          <cc>ian</cc>
    
    <cc>mike</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-a11y</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-admin</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-wg-issue-tracking</cc>
    
    <cc>w3c</cc>
          
          <qa_contact name="HTML WG Bugzilla archive list">public-html-bugzilla</qa_contact>

      

      

      

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          <long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>30757</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="Gez Lemon">gez.lemon</who>
    <bug_when>2010-01-08 10:29:38 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>The spec says: An option element that has a value attribute set to the empty string, and has a disabled attribute, and whose textContent consists of a string of one or more hyphens (U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS) will append a separator to the menu.

As hr is supported, why is the special example required?</thetext>
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    <commentid>31535</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2010-02-05 23:03:50 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>This is intended to make it easy to port current &lt;select&gt; &quot;menus&quot; to &lt;menu&gt; without changing the menu code.

Also, you can&apos;t put an &lt;hr&gt; in a &lt;select&gt;.

EDITOR&apos;S RESPONSE: This is an Editor&apos;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:
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: no spec change suggested</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>31757</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="Michael Cooper">cooper</who>
    <bug_when>2010-02-11 17:01:07 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>HTML A11Y TF plans to provide further information to support this issue.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>39007</commentid>
    <comment_count>3</comment_count>
    <who name="Martin Kliehm">w3c</who>
    <bug_when>2010-09-14 15:45:21 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>The specification says that an option with an empty value, disabled state and one or more hyphens as text creates a seperator node. Since the option is disabled it will not effect screen readers and is purely presentational. The HTML Accessibility TF Bug Triage Sub-team does not consider this as an accessibility issue and proposes to close the bug.</thetext>
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