8750 2010-01-14 15:29:19 +0000 User able to override the hidden attribute in incorrectly rendered pages 2010-10-04 14:30:09 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified All All VERIFIED WORKSFORME http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/editing.html#the-hidden-attribute a11y, a11ytf, a11y_display P2 normal --- 1 gez.lemon ian cooper ian mike public-html-a11y public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 31044 0 gez.lemon 2010-01-14 15:29:19 +0000 It's important to give users the ability to discover and navigate content when authoring tools are used incorrectly. The hidden attribute is a good example. Excerpt: "The **hidden **attribute must not be used to hide content that could legitimately be shown in another presentation, for example..." On occasion it will be, however, and full accessibility means the user needs some way to override this in order to deal with incorrectly rendered pages. 31787 1 cooper 2010-02-11 17:18:37 +0000 The HTML Accessibility Task Force intends to track these issues, per the proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Jan/0245.html. 32535 2 ian 2010-02-23 06:41:33 +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: no spec change Rationale: The rendering section already establishes that UAs can render pages however they like, including presenting everything that's hidden, the whole DOM tree, the source of scripts, or whatever else the user might want to see. 38115 3 cooper 2010-08-28 14:36:02 +0000 http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/44061/20080513_bugs/results#xq10 We accept the response in this bug.