- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 00:57:58 +0100
- To: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
- Cc: Léonie Watson <lwatson@nomensa.com>, public-html-a11y@w3.org
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:07 PM, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca> wrote: > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: >> >> In the minutes John Foliot is recorded as saying: "Benjamin is saying >> that it shouldn't be allowed to happen. It's already happening, so all >> we're trying to do is document the truth." >> >> Did he just mean that some browsers today expose @hidden content to >> accessible name and description calculation or is the assertion that >> there's some actual web content in the wild that depends on this >> behavior? >> > > "Still works when the link is hidden using the HTML5 hidden attribute or CSS display:none" > > http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2012/05/firefox-14-image-long-description-via-link-using-aria-describedby/ Cheers for the clarification. Browser behavior is comparatively easy to change to whatever the WG decides is best. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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