[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #47390: Improve accessibility of forms elements within some "form-table" forms

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#47390: Improve accessibility of forms elements within some "form-table" forms
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 Reporter:  afercia         |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |  Milestone:  5.3
Component:  Administration  |    Version:
 Severity:  normal          |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  accessibility   |
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 Follow-up to #46899.

 In #46899, an attribute `role="presentation"` was added to most of the
 `form-table` used in the admin pages. These tables contain forms and in
 most of the cases they are used just for layout purposes. The
 `role="presentation"` helps in removing the table semantics where
 appropriate.

 Note: this should be considered a temporary improvement, pending decision
 on the proposal to entirely remove layout tables from WordPress. See
 #16413, #18801, #39441, and the explorations made on
 https://github.com/wpaccessibility/settings-api-enhanced.

 That said, there are a few cases where the semantics of these forms within
 tables can be improved. I'm working on a patch to address these cases.

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