Bug 265713 – AX: Roll back a retracted ARIA change: default aria-level for heading role should not randomly be 2.

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Accessibility

[James Craig]

Rollback a retracted ARIA change: default aria-level should not randomly be 2.

Rollback or update to remove this diff:
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/09bbaddcb99391c80fe4adde695393cc6de97c80

It shipped in ARIA 1.1 (I missed it or I would have objected then)
https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#heading

But was removed (for good reason) in ARIA 1.2
https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.2/#heading

So we should role back the change in WebKit.


# Some justification: 
The spec change (default is 2 wtf?) prioritizes spec authors over users, authors, the inverse priority of the web platform design principles... 

1. Screen reader users hear additional verbose information that may not be accurate: "heading level 2" instead of just "heading" 
2. There's no way for an author to provide a heading with an unspecified level.

So it's good that the ARIA spec removed it, and we should get this out of WebKit, too.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/119059172>

[James Craig]

> we should role back the change

I've got roles rolling around in my brains. Roll it back!

[Joshua Hoffman]

Created attachment 468840 [details]
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[Joshua Hoffman]

Created attachment 468848 [details]
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[Joshua Hoffman]

Created attachment 468850 [details]
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[Joshua Hoffman]

Created attachment 468857 [details]
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[EWS]

Committed 271497@main (a61b53287171): <https://commits.webkit.org/271497@main>

All reviewed patches have been landed. Closing bug and clearing flags on attachment 468857 [details].