Form element only gets the form role if it has an accessible name, similar to section element

[jongund]

The current spec says that the form element maps by default to the form role and the form role in the ARIA 1.2 spec says that the form role is required to have an accessible name. I don't think we want accessible names on every form element. Something has to change, seems the easy change is to make the form role conditional on the presence of an accessible name, similar to the wording for the section element.

[scottaohara]

Aria 1.3 adds more clarity here. And html aam is already updated to indicate that a form landmark needs a name, but unnamed the form role may still be exposed, but not as a landmark

since aria in html doesn’t define what roles each element has, any necessary change wouldn’t start here.

Maybe further clarification is needed in aria.

[scottaohara]

closing this issue as this is not the spec that would need a change.

I have filed an issue in ARIA per the necessary further clarification, as the mappings in HTML AAM and Core AAM are also up to date.