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Map Empty-heading rule to ARIA instead of WCAG #2120

Closed WilcoFiers closed 9 months ago

WilcoFiers commented 10 months ago

PR related to #2119. As has been discussed a few times in TF and CG, empty headings is not a failure of 1.3.1, at least not anymore as far as we know. Assistive technologies consistently ignore empty headings now.

However there is a requirement in ARIA that says headings, among various other things require an accessible name. As part of #2119 we'd like to add such a rule. This would be a more generic rule covering all cases where accessible names are required. Instead of deprecating this rule and adding it back in later, at TPAC we talked about changing the Heading not empty rule to map exclusively to ARIA, and deprecating it once the broader rule is completed.

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Jym77 commented 9 months ago

Call for review has ended, merging.