Re: Proposal: remove aria-describedat from the ARIA 1.1 specification

+1

What sort of media query would have to be added? Do you mean a pseudo class like :expanded/:collapsed (or :open/:closed) on details?

—Michiel

> On 05 Nov 2015, at 16:41, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> After discussions with Microsoft and following the bug tracker for Firefox it appears that <details>/<summary> is going to be implemented at some point in both Edge and Firefox. This addresses the gaps in browser support. A media query will need to be created at some point to handle the showing/hiding of this element, and I see those discussions are happening, but I believe this addresses the requirements of the digital publishing industry. 
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> Since this requirement is being met I would like to propose the removal of aria-describedat from the ARIA 1.1 specification at the next ARIA Working Group meeting. Are there any objections? Do you agree?
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> We can vote on the next ARIA WG call but I wanted to give people a heads up. 
> 
> Rich
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> 
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
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Received on Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:54:14 UTC