1302726 - The role="presentation" attribute in tables is not inherited by table rows/cells

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect, P3)

Description

[Alessandro]

Attachment: 2016-09-14_1625.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I have create a table with role="presentation" attribute at the root level:

    <table role="presentation">
        <tr>
            <td>
                1
            </td>
            <td>
                2
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                3
            </td>
            <td>
                4
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>


Actual results:

Accessibility Tree in DOM Inspector displays table cells as shown in the attached screenshot.


Expected results:

Accessibility Tree should not contain table cells because the parent table element is marked with the role="presentation" attribute.

Comment 1

[Alessandro]

Forgot to mention that the same issue is replicated in the context of lists. For example:

    <ul role="presentation">
        <li>One</li>
        <li>Two</li>
        <li>Three</li>
    </ul>

If you inspect Accessibility Tree of this markup, you will see LI text containers.

Comment 2

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Those are text containers and I think we have to expose them to not get the text jammed. Please reopen if you disagree.