919443 - something funky about assigning of IA2 roles

Status: NEW

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[steve faulkner]

while editing the HTML mapping guide and in process checking the roles exposed for various elements I noticed that the roles assigned appear somewhat bizarro.

example:
<center> = IA2 PARAGRAPH
<main> = IA2 PARAGRAPH

it also appears as if IA2 section is used arbitrarily. How are the IA32 roles assignments decided?

Comment 1

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

role paragraph is used as for most text containers as a fallback, so for example if it's a div then section is returned, otherwise if no other condition triggers then paragraph (see http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/accessible/src/generic/HyperTextAccessible.cpp#85).

Comment 2

[steve faulkner]

Its unclear to me why <div> would be a section and <main> not and why <section> is a section and <article> not.

Comment 3

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

That code is a piece of history annals, we just have checks for div and section, we don't for main and article - it's from technical perspective. I don't have an objection why we shouldn't have similar for main and article elements. If you think those should be rather sections then it's fine with me. Is that a bug?