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Bug 17115 - The first example of the menu element is about how to markup a menubar in HTML. For the markup a menu in the toolbar state was used. However, the section about native ARIA semantics describes that it's not possible to change the semantics of a menu in the
Summary: The first example of the menu element is about how to markup a menubar in HTM...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Edward O'Connor
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/wai-aria...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y, a11y_semantics, aria
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-05-19 08:45 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-25 18:04 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-05-19 08:45:52 UTC 
Specification: 
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
The first example of the menu element is about how to markup a menubar in
HTML. For the markup a menu in the toolbar state was used.
However, the section about native ARIA semantics describes that it's not
possible to change the semantics of a menu in the toolbar state to menubar.
So the menu element example used a menu in toolbar state to mark up a menubar.
But then you're not allowed to set the right semantics.
Maybe you could introduce a menubar state of the menu element or just allow
the use of ARIA's menubar role on the menu element.

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Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 07:21:30 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 17945 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Edward O'Connor 2012-09-25 18:04:03 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: No change.
Rationale: As Ian explained in <https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17945#c1>:

> A menu used for a context menu is rendered natively by the UA, not
> inline in the page, so ARIA is not relevant (you don't end up looking
> at the DOM nodes with the AT, you look at the native control
> directly).