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by chrisfarms 4667 days ago
The ARIA roles ideas seem to address the semantics/accessibility issues much better than semantic tags.

Plus with the direction that the Web Components stuff is going, I think they should probably scrap all the semantic elements, just stick to a smaller set of HTML elements that are "functionally" different. Then tell everyone to create their own tag-semantics by extending the basic elements for their use-case and use the standard roles taxonomy to describe the intent of the user-created tags.

It feel a bit like parts of the groups are not talking enough :)