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Removing "golden hammer" language #354

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Expand Up @@ -229,19 +229,7 @@ <h1>Graphics Roles</h1>
<p>
Authors are given the ability to influence what is presented
to assistive technologies and to influence navigation through
the use of roles and properties. With graphics, there are many
cases where presenting and navigating every element will make the
graphic harder to understand and use.
Authors may mark elements for exclusion
from the semantic representation of the document
(the accessibility tree) by assigning
the role <rref>none</rref> or <rref>presentation</rref>.
The element with this role should be treated transparently
by assistive technologies, as if its children or text content
were directly contained by its parent element.
</p>
<p>
In addition, certain roles,
the use of roles and properties. Certain roles,
such as <rref>img</rref> or <rref>graphics-symbol</rref>,
when assigned to a parent element, will cause all child
DOM structure to be omitted from the accessibility tree.
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