- From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:16:36 +0000
- To: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Cc: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, "janina@rednote.net" <janina@rednote.net>, "xn--mlform-iua@målform.no" <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, "rubys@intertwingly.net" <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, "mjs@apple.com" <mjs@apple.com>, "paul.cotton@microsoft.com" <paul.cotton@microsoft.com>, "public-html-a11y@w3.org" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Hi Ben,
"ARIA is being implemented as an AT-only access mechanism."
This does not have to be the case, it's not a requirement in ARIA or HTML5 and for example there has been positive discussions with the Firefox acc team in regards to exposing landmarks to keyboard users.
Regards
Stevef
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On 21 Mar 2012, at 10:08, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> wrote:
>> On 3/20/2012 11:18 PM, John Foliot wrote:
>>>
>>> This is the very same reason why aria-describedby cannot point to "hidden"
>>> text, as it too will be flattened to the same string text, using the same
>>> computational rules.
>>
>>
>> Can we get by with aria-describedby pointing to an embedded image tag?
>>
>> <video poster="poster.jpg" aria-describedby="poster"
>> longdesc="videolongdesc.html" aria-label="My video">
>> <a href="videolongdesc.html" title="My Video"><img id="poster"
>> src="poster.jpg" longdesc="posterlongdesc.html" alt="My Poster" /></a>
>> </video>
>>
>> We're pointing aria-describedby at an element with special semantics: img
>> @longdesc, and it's not a display: none/@hidden element,
>> so we're not violating any laws there... though I would have no expectation
>> that the img could gain focus as fallback for video.
>
> I think that is not going to work since:
>
> 1. Image descriptions need to accessible via mainstream browser UI and
> ARIA is being implemented as an AT-only access mechanism.
>
> 2. Under the recent edits PFWG has been making, non-rendered fallback
> for <video> would arguably fall under "Elements, including their
> descendents, that have host language semantics specifying that the
> element is hidden, such as CSS display:none or visibility:hidden or
> HTML 5 hidden attribute". ("hidden" is not properly defined here ...
> I've provided some feedback requesting it be defined.) Consequently
> the @longdesc link would not be accessible even to AT.
>
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-implementation/#exclude-elements
>
> --
> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
>
Received on Wednesday, 21 March 2012 10:20:47 UTC