[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #48170: Switch link list widgets to nav blocks

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#48170: Switch link list widgets to nav blocks
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 Reporter:  joedolson                        |       Owner:  audrasjb
     Type:  enhancement                      |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal                           |   Milestone:  5.5
Component:  Widgets                          |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-dev-note commit  |     Focuses:  accessibility
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Comment (by joedolson):

 Continuing to include `role="navigation"` is harmless, from a functional
 standpoint, though it does throw warnings in HTML validation. It is
 probably time for us to decide when we're going to remove the use of role
 attributes to duplicate semantic functions like this, but I think that
 should be coordinated with the accessibility-ready theme guidelines. I
 think we should keep it for now, and make a plan for a timeline to remove
 them on a global basis at some point in the future. (Excepting role=list
 because Apple.)

 Using 'navigation' as the property name kind of implies that this relates
 to menus, I think. Can we use 'widgets'? Doing some research on that
 seemed ambiguous; it's not listed as a property in the docs for
 [https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_theme_support/#html5
 add_theme_support], but is listed as a property under
 [https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/current_theme_supports
 current_theme_supports] in the codex. In general, I'm inclined to believe
 the new developer docs over info in the codex, but I couldn't find
 anything about what 'widgets' html5 support might mean right now,
 otherwise.

 There are references in core to `current_theme_supports( 'widgets' )`, but
 not to `current_theme_supports( 'html5', 'widgets' )`.

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