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The following elements have no role by default, and arguably that should be a strong semantic, either because (a) they are normally not presented, and in the rare case that they are, giving them any ARIA role would violate their semantics; or (b) because they are an interactive control that is specifically not any of the standard ARIA roles, so giving it any role would violate its semantics: base head html keygen meta meter noscript param script title
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r5364. Check-in comment: Update ARIA strong native semantics to include more elements that should not have a role http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5363&to=5364
Bug triage sub-team notes there is active discussion, and this appears to meet the threshold of being of interest to the HTML A11Y TF. Adding a11ytf keyword.