Re: Microsoft IE bug regarding aria-describedby and the accessibility tree Description property

this info may be helpful:
http://codepen.io/stevef/full/mFyvb/

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 6 June 2014 17:30, Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I came across this yesterday, but am not sure where to submit it.
>
>
>
> The issue is this, when aria-describedby is set on a link, it does not set
> the UIA Description property accordingly, but instead sets the Description
> as the link text instead. Verified on IE11 using Win7.
>
>
>
> Weirdly, the Description property is only set correctly if role=”tooltip”
> is set on the referenced nodes, which doesn’t make sense when multiple IDs
> are being referenced.
>
>
>
> Examples:
>
>
>
>
>
> * 1. UIA Description property results in "Test 1", not "Announce me" as it
> should.
>
>
>
> <div>
>
> <span id="testid1">
>
> Announce
>
> </span>
>
> <span id="testid2">
>
> me
>
> </span>
>
> <a href="#" aria-describedby="testid1 testid2">
>
> Test 1
>
> </a>
>
> </div>
>
>
>
>
>
> * 2. UIA Description property now results in "Announce me"
>
>
>
> <div>
>
> <span id="testid3" role="tooltip" >
>
> Announce
>
> </span>
>
> <span id="testid4" role="tooltip" >
>
> me
>
> </span>
>
> <a href="#" aria-describedby="testid3 testid4">
>
> Test 2
>
> </a>
>
> </div>
>
>
>
> This may be applicable to other element types as well.
>
>
>