Menu Button examples using role=none on <li> elements flagged by the Nu Validator

[nschonni]

https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/blob/master/examples/menu-button/menu-button-links.html#L59-L84
Not sure if this is a Validator issue, or an issue with the examples

[jnurthen]

Logged w3c/html-aria#78 against HTML in ARIA which the validator uses for its rules

[mcking65]

I see that w3c/html-aria#78 is closed. Has the validator been updated?

[nschonni]

The spec commit w3c/html-aria@f36423a landed at the end of September, but I don't see anything in the validator commits that seem to corrispond

[css-meeting-bot]

The Working Group just discussed validation issue.

The full IRC log of that discussion

<jemma> Topic: validation issue
<jamesn> Github:https://github.com//issues/432
<jemma> Github: https://github.com//issues/432
<jemma> james: I will talk to Michale Copper
<jemma> s/cooper/smith
<jamesn> s/Copper/Smith/
<jemma> role="none" is supported throughout browsers.
<mck> https://github.com//pull/421

[jnurthen]

validator/validator#581 logged against validator

[mcking65]

Closing with assumption that @sideshowbarker will update validator accordingly.

[sideshowbarker]

I’ve fixed this in the HTML checker and pushed the fix to https://validator.w3.org/nu/