NEW260685
AX: Remove support for non-standard ARIA text role 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260685
Summary AX: Remove support for non-standard ARIA text role
Tyler Wilcock
Reported 2023-08-24 17:13:14 PDT
In https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260684, we put support for this role behind a feature flag. Let's remove the flag and the feature entirely eventually if no complaints are made about it being missing.
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Radar WebKit Bug Importer
Comment 1 2023-08-24 17:13:26 PDT
<rdar://problem/114415057>
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 2 2023-08-28 13:48:32 PDT
Is this the same as bug 260641?
Yegor
Comment 3 2024-02-15 10:53:01 PST
I posted more detail in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260641, but I think it's better to push other browsers to adopt this role rather than remove it. There's an important use-case for the text role.
James Craig
Comment 4 2025-12-11 17:42:27 PST
> I think it's better to push other browsers to adopt this role rather than remove it. Steve Faulkner and I made that case as long ago as 2011. The ARIA Working Group has rejected it a number of times since then. Some of the ancient history is linked in: https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/870#issuecomment-705827591
James Craig
Comment 5 2025-12-11 17:43:57 PST
Trivia: The discussion history goes back before the Working Group was using GitHub, and before the working group was called ARIA!
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