- From: Matthew Turvey <mcturvey@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:19:26 +0100
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, public-html-a11y@w3.org, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com>
On 25 April 2012 01:42, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote: > To put it more bluntly, I'm unclear that we are all on the same page > over the simple fact that ARIA-Describedby will only communicate > "flattened" text to the A11Y APIs--that any and all semantic ml will > necessarily be lost. This is a critical point that should not be glossed > over and should be clearly articulated in Sec. 7.1. See the Firefox bug below for an example of exposing an accessible action to open a link, with the link text as the accessible description, when aria-describedby points to an <a href>. There's no technical reason why this couldn't also be implemented for <a href hidden> as both CP's point out. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652635 -Matt
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