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Re: [External Sender]What are the semantics in html?

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From: Steve Green
Date: Jul 10, 2020 9:16AM

No, that's not what semantics are. Semantics are about meaning, not behaviour. There may be specifications or unwritten understandings regarding the behaviours of different semantic elements, but they have nothing to do with the semantics themselves.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] [External Sender] Re: What are the semantics in html?

I disagree that a non-actionable element added to the tab order is not a failure of semantics. Semantics is information that you know based on the attributes of an element. For instance if the role is "heading" then part of the semantics, the meta-data about that element, is that it is non-actionable and not expected in the tab order. If an element is in the tab order, there might certainly be an expectation that that element is actionable, otherwise why would it be in the tab order in the first place.
This expectation directly results from the perceived semantics of the element being in the tab order.

Maybe this works better as an explanation to developers why they shouldn't do this, rather than in the current context, but to me it makes perfect sense to consider the semantics of being in the tab order.




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