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Re: 4.1.1 Parsing > nested elements

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Mar 31, 2018 6:18PM

> Use of role=navigation on <ul> is a conformance error

Hi Steve, yes, agreed -- bad choice of example on my part. My question/statement was that when an allowed role is applied to an HTML element or one of it's children then that applied allowed role alters the allowed parent/child elements and allowed roles. Thus the use of the role can break the nesting structure role/implied role and in such cases even if ARIA is applied to only the parent or the child a 4.1.1 violation can occur. That is the nesting structure requirements for 4.1.1 should be based on the calculated role not the element's tag name.

Jonathan

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