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Re: Seeking public feedback for W3C ARIArole=formlandmark mapping

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Apr 27, 2016 9:37AM

Okay, as a quick update regarding the future of role=form, we've agreed to map this to landmark for the explicit role, and to only map role=form implicitly on native HTML form elements when it has an explicit label using either aria-labelledby or aria-label.

The relevant meeting minutes are posted at
http://www.w3.org/2016/04/26-aapi-minutes.html#item05

So to clarify, any container element that includes the actual attribute role="form" will be treated as a landmark no matter if it has a label.

However, all native HTML form elements (<form> ... </form>) that don't have a label will act the same as they do now, unless aria-labelledby or aria-label is used to set a label for that form, in which case it will also automatically map to landmark.

Thanks again for the feedback,
Bryan




Bryan Garaventa
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