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In the WAI-ARIA section current spec the table element is listed both in the table for roles with strong semantics and the list with no semantics suggest replacing current with table > no role > If specified, role must be one of the following: alertdialog, dialog, directory, grid, list, listbox, menu, menubar, tablist, toolbar, tree, treegrid or presentation.
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: This seems to have been fixed already. For the new roles, please see bug 10478. (Please file separate bugs for separate issues.)
escalating in relation to this: "table > no role > If specified, role must be one of the following: alertdialog, dialog, directory, grid, list, listbox, menu, menubar, tablist, toolbar, tree, treegrid or presentation."
removed from tracker as point of disagreement is duplicate of http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10478 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10478 ***
Since this is a verified duplicate this bug does not require the a11yTF keyword. The bug-triage sub-team recommends closing the bug.