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                                            Benjamin Beaudry

[focusgroup] Why not include memory of last focused item in group?

Travis summed up pretty well the three approaches we have: reset, roving or override. Reset is trivial and doesn't solve this issue. It's also our current approach. ## memory-roving I...

[focusgroup] Action of the Home and End keys

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Update from PR #1018 for nameFrom: heading

@cookiecrook This change is a step in the right direction in my opinion. I don't have any issues with it. Merge it, and we'll build it in Chromium eventually!

Error thrown when <img> with alt="" includes role="presentation"

Weighing-in as a Microsoft Edge and Chromium engineer. It appears incorrect that the validator throws an error when using both alt="" and role="presentation". I would be interested to know more...

Consider creation of a fieldsize/maxlength property

@jnurthen This came up today internally. What's the timeline for 1.4?

Incomplete UIA mappings for aria-haspopup

I agree with you. To go a step further, this lack of explicit call out in Core-AAM appears to be more widespread and is extended to pretty much all aria...

Consider clarifying that IA2 live region updates also require information in get_newText() and get_oldText()

Fair point. I was personally not aware of this requirement either and it could be helpful to explicitly point it out here. Would you like to put together a PR...

Roles with UIA mappings for control type: text may be incorrect?

> Currently roles like headings and paragraphs have a control type of text... I just confirmed that, in Chromium, we already expose paragraphs and headings as "UIA_GroupControlTypeId". Looks like we...

Roles with UIA mappings for control type: text may be incorrect?

But to be clear, there might plenty of issues with other roles. I'll need to do a thorough pass. Ping me if I forget.

Update UIA alert event in role mapping table to match UIA changes

Actually, we will change this behavior in Chrome. I discussed your idea of not firing alerts when the content of the alert is empty with James Craig and Aaron this...