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Bug 20697 - ARIA: Better wording in the heading of the second column
Summary: ARIA: Better wording in the heading of the second column
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: steve faulkner
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html...
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Keywords: a11y, aria
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Reported: 2013-01-17 13:10 UTC by Leif Halvard Silli
Modified: 2013-04-06 10:41 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Leif Halvard Silli 2013-01-17 13:10:00 UTC
The header cell of the second column of the strong native semantics table, currently says:

]] Strong native semantics and default implicit ARIA semantics [[

Please replace that text with the following, much clearer wording:

]] Default implicit ARIA semantics that are considered strong native semantics. [[

Justification: The old wording is unclear. Does that column contain two kinds of of content? (Thus, are the listed features of EITHER strong native sematics nature OR default implicit ARIA sematics naure)? Or does it designate default implict ARIA semantics that also are strong native semantics.?

I belive the latter option is closest to the intended meaning. Hence I propose a wording that says so.
Comment 1 steve faulkner 2013-04-06 10:41:37 UTC
Hi Leif, rather than make changes to this section, I have provided pointers to documents for authors that do provide unambiguous guidance.

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Status: rejected
Change Description: added note with references https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/38ffe22ebc22e1a0f8e6e0788fe426e402df1fc8
Rationale: The primary audience of this section is implementers it does not provide clear or adequate info for authors, other W3C documents do.