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Bug 21934 - <aside> acts as side note needs role="note"
Summary: <aside> acts as side note needs role="note"
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: steve faulkner
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Keywords: a11y, aria
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Reported: 2013-05-06 07:04 UTC by Ian Yang
Modified: 2014-03-01 15:40 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Ian Yang 2013-05-06 07:04:03 UTC
In the "Footnotes" section of the Common idioms suggestions (see link below), an <aside> element acts as side note in the second example is lack of role="note".

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/common-idioms.html#footnotes
Comment 1 steve faulkner 2013-05-06 07:09:56 UTC
why do you think the use of role=note is appropriate?
Comment 2 Ian Yang 2013-05-06 07:15:07 UTC
Because if an <aside> element doesn't being marked as role="note", it will be treat as a landmark "complementary".
Comment 3 steve faulkner 2013-05-06 07:26:30 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Because if an <aside> element doesn't being marked as role="note", it will
> be treat as a landmark "complementary".

why isn't 'complementary' an appropriate role in the context of the example?
Comment 4 Ian Yang 2013-05-06 07:32:08 UTC
"complementary" is okay, but "note" is more appropriate. Just like in many cases <div> is okay, but <section> is more appropriate.

And a side note, imoh, is not important enough to be regarded as a landmark.
Comment 5 Ian Yang 2013-05-09 08:10:49 UTC
Please advise?
Comment 6 steve faulkner 2013-05-09 08:20:44 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> Please advise?

Hi Ian, 
there is a list of bugs that have to be dealt with, please be patient.
Comment 7 Ian Yang 2013-05-09 08:22:16 UTC
Thanks Steve.
Comment 8 steve faulkner 2014-03-01 15:37:22 UTC
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: refer to commit https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/18e9d68d99c3181fa5174dac4759d32a5543d2c3
Rationale: agreed with commenter