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Disallow roles on a[href] #187

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karlgroves opened this issue Oct 17, 2019 · 2 comments
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Disallow roles on a[href] #187

karlgroves opened this issue Oct 17, 2019 · 2 comments
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Allowed roles Pertaining to the allowed roles of HTML elements
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ARIA in HTML 1.2

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@karlgroves
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karlgroves commented Oct 17, 2019 •
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Currently this document states the following in column 3 for roles which may be used on a[href]

Roles: button, checkbox, menuitem, menuitemcheckbox, menuitemradio, option, radio, switch, tab or treeitem

The construction of links & linking between documents has been with HTML since its very beginning. In fact, supporting links is one of the foundational conformance requirements for user agents

Section 7 of RFC 1866 discusses the purpose and structure of links.

The content of the href attribute must be a valid resource.

I simply cannot see any relevant use case for applying a role for what would otherwise be a link.

If the author has constructed an <a> element that contains an href attribute, then the use of any other role should be considered invalid.
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As a quick follow-up, area[href] is listed as "No Role"

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masi commented Feb 13, 2021

Can the ticket be closed? AS I understand your second comment everything is fine.

@scottaohara scottaohara added the Allowed roles Pertaining to the allowed roles of HTML elements label Sep 20, 2021
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@scottaohara scottaohara added this to the ARIA in HTML 1.2 milestone Mar 13, 2022
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