Modify definition of role attribute to remove rendered limitation
authorRichard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:29:08 -0600
changeset 597 ca826b29136f
parent 596 8efbddd72d71
child 598 8699c4121a13
Modify definition of role attribute to remove rendered limitation
master/struct.html
--- a/master/struct.html	Sun Feb 02 16:31:52 2014 +1100
+++ b/master/struct.html	Sun Feb 02 15:29:08 2014 -0600
@@ -1837,8 +1837,7 @@
 
 <h3 id="roleattribute">Role attribute</h3>
 
-<p>Rendered SVG elements may have an ARIA role attribute specified. The
-attribute, if specified, must have a value that is a set of space-separated
+<p>SVG elements having native semantics that are not limited to <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/roles#presentation">presentation</a> (having "no role"), may have an ARIA role attribute specified. The attribute, if specified, must have a value that is a set of space-separated
 tokens representing the various WAI-ARIA roles that the element belongs to.
 These tokens are role values defined in
 <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/roles#role_definitions">Definition of Roles</a>