Why are <b> and <s> mapped to semantic roles, but <i> is not?

[cookiecrook]

Why are <b> and <s> mapped to semantic roles (strong and deletion), but <i> is generic?

FWIW, I think all the style-based tags should be generic, but perhaps we can settle on consistency, one way or the other. Either <i> should be emphasis, or <b> and <s> (maybe more) should be generic, right?

[scottaohara]

The answer is because I made a mistake :)

[stevefaulkner]

@scottaohara Can you explain the reasoning for collapsing the semantics of b/strong and i/em as they are defined in HTML as representing different things

[cookiecrook]

I (and maybe Scott) argued for b and i to map to generic, but the ARIA WG went a different way. @michael-n-cooper @joanmarie or @jnurthen may be able to find the specific decision.

They’d be interested to know that ARIA WG decision conflicts with the primary standard.

[scottaohara]

just mentioning here that I've commented in the new issue that James created, so per anyone cc'd in the previous comment, may be worth reading that issue too.

[cookiecrook]

Closing the loop.

The AAM change was rolled back with:

• revert i mapping change #483

The test change was rolled back with:

• roll back to generic for b and i based on HTML-AAM 482 web-platform-tests/wpt#39911