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Bug 21428 - "script element: No role" — it strikes me that <head>, <style>, <script>, <noscript> when scripting is enabled, etc, should probably have aria-hidden=true implied and forced (strong semantic).
Summary: "script element: No role" — it strikes me that <head>, <style>, <script>, <no...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Blocks: 22195
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Reported: 2013-03-28 19:52 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-05-29 07:08 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-03-28 19:52:41 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#table-aria-strong
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#table-aria-strong

Comment:
"script element:	No role" — it strikes me that <head>, <style>,
<script>, <noscript> when scripting is enabled, etc, should probably have
aria-hidden=true implied and forced (strong semantic).

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Comment 1 contributor 2013-05-04 00:22:46 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7866.
Check-in comment: Mark certain elements as hidden for ARIA purposes too.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7865&to=7866