Comment by pbhjpbhj
If you have to use `role=status` to make it work with screenreaders, I'm not sure I see the point.
Maybe I'm jaded, I was all in on semantic xhtml and microformats before we got HTML5, but this seems like being overly-pedantic for the sake of pedantry rather than for a11y.
Chicken-and-egg. As soon as more websites start using the tag, screenreaders will catch up and role=status will not be needed.