Consider allowing roles on with no href attribute · Issue #325 · w3c/html-aria (original) (raw)

Creating this issue to replace #317, as there is no need to resolve that issue for 1.0 specification, but we should consider this suggestion going forward.

<a> with no href takes any role, but <area> with no href takes no roles. These are similar and seem like they should be consistent. <area role=button> seems like it would be useful, as would checkbox and other widget roles.