Is the text that prohibits changing roles obsolete? · Issue #986 · w3c/aria (original) (raw)

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Description

The spec states
"Platform accessibility APIs typically do not provide a vehicle to notify assistive technologies that a role has changed. Due to this and document caching, assistive technologies are unlikely to process a change in role attribute value. Authors who wish to change a role are advised to delete the associated element and its children and replace it with a new element having the appropriate role. If a role is changed, however, user agents SHOULD update the mapping in order to reflect the content in the DOM. Since assistive technologies might not detect that the role has changed, user agents MAY address this condition by removing the item from the accessibility tree and inserting a new item in its place."

Is this still accurate?
The question is being asked based on whatwg/html#4658

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