- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:22:03 +0100
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, Geoff Freed <geoff_freed@wgbh.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Jonas Sicking, Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:01:09 -0700: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> Jonas Sicking, Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:13:54 -0700: >>> As far as I can see aria-describedby addresses this use case. I >>> believe ARIA is no explicitly supported by HTML5 drafts. >> >> Now I am surprised. Care to explain? See my concrete questions below. >> >>>> On 2/25/11, Geoff Freed wrote: >> >>>>> [ ... ] bear in mind that long descriptions are >>>>> typically produced after the original content has been published. >> >> Jonas, when produced after the original, how would you use >> aria-describdby? >> >> [...] >>>>> Furthermore, those hosted descriptions will be living documents which >>>>> may need to be improved upon in a collaborative and moderated >>>>> fashion. [...] >> >> Jonas, how can aria-describedby address the use case of a description >> that lives on another page? > > I believe we've been down this path many many times. I'll refrain from > repeating information which has been presented ad infinitum already. Fair enough. I'm satisfied that you just some hours ago acknowledged, in Bug 12243 [1], that @aria-describedby can't - as specced in ARIA 1.0 - be used for the above mentioned purposes. [1] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12243#c2 -- leif halvard silli
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