Re: ISSUE-636 CTION-1398 Provide spec. text for aria-roledescription

i agree.


Rich Schwerdtfeger



From:	Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
To:	James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
Cc:	Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>, Richard
            Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, "W3C WAI Protocols & Formats"
            <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Date:	04/01/2014 12:52 AM
Subject:	Re: ISSUE-636 CTION-1398 Provide spec. text for
            aria-roledescription




On 1 April 2014 03:28, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:
  At least two platform APIs already support this feature: AX API as
  AXRoleDescription and MSAA/UIA as localizedControlType.

I believe there is a vast difference between the relatively controlled
environment of browser implementations and allowing any author to
effectively replace the limited set of roles with any string they like.



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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1

Received on Tuesday, 1 April 2014 15:45:25 UTC