[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 163647] AX: don't expose empty roledescription

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163647

Joanmarie Diggs (irc: joanie) <jdiggs at igalia.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Joanmarie Diggs (irc: joanie) <jdiggs at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to James Craig from comment #0)

> Also note the following restriction in the same section:
> > User agents must not expose the aria-roledescription property if … The element to which aria-roledescription is applied does not have a valid WAI-ARIA role or does not have an implicit WAI-ARIA role semantic.
> 
> Which seems overly restrictive and I asked for it to be removed. FWIW, I
> doubt we'd want to implement this restriction even if the WG declines the
> spec change.

James: Do you still think it's acceptable to do what you stated in the related github issue [1], namely:

<quote>
What if you only included this stipulation on generic elements like <div> and <span>? I'd be okay with that restriction. The goal seems to be to avoid problem cases like <div aria-roledescription="button"> and restricting usage on generics would be one way to do that, without penalizing appropriate use on another type of element.
</quote>

If so, are you ok with my proceeding with that in Safari and WebKitGtk, independent of when the WG adopts the change?


[1] https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/500#issuecomment-266968158

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