719852 - accessibility API mapping for section element

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 614310

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[steve faulkner]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:11.0a2) Gecko/20120116 Firefox/11.0a2
Build ID: 20120116042010

Steps to reproduce:

looked at the IA2 mapping for the HTML5 section element.


Actual results:

it is exposed as an IA2 paragraph role


Expected results:

the Ia2 paragraph role definition = 
IA2_ROLE_PARAGRAPH 	A paragraph of text.
the HTML5 section element is defined:
"The section element represents a generic section of a document or application. A section, in this context, is a thematic grouping of content, typically with a heading.

Examples of sections would be chapters, the various tabbed pages in a tabbed dialog box, or the numbered sections of a thesis. A Web site's home page could be split into sections for an introduction, news items, and contact information."

Which does not appear to fit with the IA2 paragraph definition, but seems closer to the IA2 section role.

"IA2_ROLE_SECTION 	A container of document content. An example of the use of this role is to represent an HTML DIV tag. A section may be used as a region. A region is a group of elements that together form a perceivable unit. A region does not necessarily follow the logical structure of the content, but follows the perceivable structure of the page."

iA2 roles: http://accessibility.linuxfoundation.org/a11yspecs/ia2/docs/html/_accessible_role_8idl.html
HTML5 section: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/the-section-element.html#the-section-element