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<area> with no href should allow roles #317

Closed cyns closed 3 years ago

cyns commented 3 years ago

<a> with no href takes any role, but <area> with no href takes no roles. These are similar and seem like they should be consistent. <area role=button> seems like it would be useful, as would checkbox and other widget roles.

scottaohara commented 3 years ago

I think it makes sense to adjust this, as Cynthia suggests / as we talked about in the ARIA WG meeting this past Thursday. Being that <area> is specifically meant to be a child of a <map> I do not think it makes sense to allow any role, as <a> without href does. But checkboxes, radios, buttons... yeh, things like that could very well work.

We can get this updated for the next version of the spec.

stevefaulkner commented 3 years ago

At the time I think that it was decided to not allow stuff on <area> because it does not have a visible UI by default, you need to add shape and coords attributes to it then associate it with an <img> We already provide a million ways for devs to shoot themselves and users in the foot, why provide another ;-)

scottaohara commented 3 years ago

closing this ticket in favor of 325 due to the w3cbot's incessant need to futz with the labels here.

plehegar commented 3 years ago

@michael-n-cooper reminder: to remove needs-resolution, it needs to be removed on the horizontal side first, so I removed it in https://github.com/w3c/a11y-review/issues/74