Re: FORMAL OBJECTION (was RE: Working Group Decision on ISSUE-204 aria-hidden)

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
<bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:38 AM, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca> wrote:
>> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:18 PM, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca> wrote:
>>> > How do *you* think a Deaf person might access such descriptions that
>>> are @hidden but "conforming"?
>>>
>>> If they wanted to access them, I'd expect them to use a user agent
>>> with a mechanism for exposing them.
>>>
>>> The challenge of universal access to hidden descriptions is not
>>> specific to descriptions that have structure or interactivity. Yet
>>> ARIA blesses hidden descriptions and accordingly so do both CPs.
>>
>> See, right there, this is where I believe you are misunderstanding ARIA.
>>
>> ARIA "blesses" nothing
>
> What I mean by "blesses" is such usage is not merely conforming by
> omission but explicitly suggested.
>
> Long descriptions for images:
>
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-practices/#kbd_layout_remaining_description
>
> Structured and interactive content:
>
> "aria-describedby may reference structured or interactive information
> where users would want to be able to navigate to different sections of
> content. User agents MAY provide a way for the user to navigate to
> structured information referenced by aria-describedby and assistive
> technology SHOULD provide such a method."
>
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-implementation/#mapping_additional_relations_reverse_relations

Oh - and how could I forget - from the most canonical definition of
the property there is:

" a description is intended to provide more verbose information …
Include ID references to multiple elements if necessary, or enclose a
set of elements (e.g., paragraphs) with the element referenced by the
ID."

http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/states_and_properties#aria-describedby

Not only mere multiple _sentences_ but multiple _paragraphs_!

--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Received on Thursday, 16 August 2012 09:38:50 UTC