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Bug 25483 - restrict roles on th element with scope/headers/sorted/abbr attributes?
Summary: restrict roles on th element with scope/headers/sorted/abbr attributes?
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
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
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Reported: 2014-04-27 10:07 UTC by steve faulkner
Modified: 2015-06-05 13:34 UTC (History)
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Description steve faulkner 2014-04-27 10:07:35 UTC 
currently the th [1] element when being used a col or row header can be overidden by any role, suggest constraining roles when element has scope/headers/sorted/abbr attributes.

[1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/tabular-data.html#the-th-element
Comment 1 steve faulkner 2015-06-05 13:34:42 UTC 
moved bug to aria module https://github.com/webspecs/html-aria/issues/19