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   title="NEW - AX: don't expose empty roledescription"
   href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163647">163647</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>AX: don't expose empty roledescription
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          <td>Unclassified
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>WebKit
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>WebKit Nightly Build
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          <td>All
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          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>Normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P2
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Accessibility
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          <td>webkit-unassigned&#64;lists.webkit.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>jcraig&#64;apple.com
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          <td>webkit-bug-importer&#64;group.apple.com
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        <pre>ARIA 1.1 include the following restriction on &#64;aria-roledescription

<span class="quote">&gt; User agents must not expose the aria-roledescription property if … The value of aria-roledescription is empty or contains only whitespace characters.</span >

Which seems fine. Please implement.


Also note the following restriction in the same section:
<span class="quote">&gt; 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.</span >

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.

ARIA ISSUE-1048
<a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/track/issues/1048">https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/track/issues/1048</a></pre>
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