Re: aria-describedat

Quoting Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>:

>
> While a nice idea, @hasurl is a broad concept and doesn't state what
> you're supposed to find behind the url. I believe what we're after is
> something a bit more semantic - a link that takes a user to a Web page
> that contains (mainly textual) metadata

Not MetaData, real, human-readable textual data that describes in more  
detail what the *foo* is that it is attached to.

> about the element (and
> possibly its subelements)

... like, say, a video's poster image? <grin>

> to which the url is attached. As usual,
> finding a good name is very hard.

Actually, while determining a "good" name is important, it is less  
important than getting the user-agent behaviors behind the @duck_soup  
attribute we create.


>
> JAWS and NVDA seem determined to not want to introduce a new
> user-interaction for @longdesc (which I think is fair enough, seeing
> as it's an attribute that's only used for accessibility).

Minor correction here: JAWS *has* introduced a new interaction for  
@longdesc. When JAWS encounters the @longdesc attribute in an <img>,  
it announces the @alt text and then states: "Press ALT plus Enter for  
Long Description" - and then pauses waiting for the user to tab  
(continue) or hit enter (explore).


JF