- From: Birkir Gunnarsson <birkir.gunnarsson@deque.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 13:20:52 -0500
- To: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
- Cc: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>, Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com>, Stefan Schnabel <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>, James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com>, "public-aria@w3.org" <public-aria@w3.org>
and aria-expanded on controls that display additional content on the page. On 2/5/16, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > On 2016-02-04 2:08 PM, Bryan Garaventa wrote: >> Actually I have punctuation set to 'none' using JAWS because I don't see >> the point of hearing every form of punctuation in everything I read, so an >> ... literally makes no sound at all:) > > What about the one you typed in the last sentence? :-) For that > matter, what about smiley I just typed? After all, it's three > punctuation marks. > >> >> This is the danger of relying on punctuation to convey meaning. > > Indeed. This is analogous to relying on a downward pointing triangle or > arrow to indicate a button will invoke a popup; hence, aria-haspopup. > Instead of relying on the ellipsis visual cue, it sounds like there is > is a need for something like "aria-more" to indicate more information > will be requested from the user. Something for ARIA 2.0. > > -- > ;;;;joseph. > > 'Die Wahrheit ist Irgendwo da Draußen. Wieder.' > - C. Carter - > > -- Birkir R. Gunnarsson Senior Accessibility Subject Matter Expert | Deque Systems 2121 Cooperative Way, Suite 210 Herndon, VA, 20171 Ph: (919) 607-27 53 Twitter: @birkir_gun
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