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Re: the state of contenteditable

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: May 28, 2014 4:54PM

ARIA should be used to ensure proper AT mappings in the accessibility tree, and to set an explicit label for the field.

There is no textarea role however, this should be textbox. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#textbox

So, role="textbox" should be added to set the role, aria-multiline should be set to 'true' to set textarea-like input, and aria-label or aria-labelledby should be set to assign an explicit label for the field, all of which would be on the focusable element that includes contenteditable.