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Bug 7434 - Everything with role=heading should also have an associated aria-level that indicates the level of the heading. The level of the heading should probably be based on the outline algorithm.
Summary: Everything with role=heading should also have an associated aria-level that i...
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/curr...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: NE, NoReply
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Reported: 2009-08-26 14:11 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:54 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2009-08-26 14:11:37 UTC 
Section: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#annotations-for-assistive-technology-products

Comment:
Everything with role=heading should also have an associated aria-level that indicates the level of the heading. The level of the heading should probably be based on the outline algorithm.

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Comment 1 Henri Sivonen 2009-08-26 14:58:39 UTC 
What problem does using role=heading aria-level=2 solve compared to using <h2>?

Making the outline algorithm sensitive to attributes can turn out to be a major perf problem. (Consider developing a selector for outline depth and caching stuff on heading nodes in the DOM.)
Comment 2 Anne 2009-08-26 15:05:19 UTC 
I'm not suggesting to influence the outline algorithm with attributes. I'm suggesting to influence AT with the proper "implicit" attributes. One could argue that ARIA should have never introduced role=heading and aria-level in the first place because HTML adequately solves the use case, but it did. And since it was decided to provide the implicit mapping between HTML and ARIA, we should probably use all the features it provides, including aria-level.
Comment 3 Anne 2009-08-26 15:06:32 UTC 
(Having said that, ARIA can still be changed in theory and support for heading could be dropped in favor of people using actual elements.)
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-09-21 23:09:35 UTC 
Looks like I did this already.
Comment 5 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-03-14 14:50:10 UTC 
This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy.

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