RE: Proposal: remove aria-describedat from the ARIA 1.1 specification

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From: Richard Schwerdtfeger [mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: 05 November 2015 15:42
To: WAI Protocols & Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Cc: DPUB-ARIA <public-dpub-aria@w3.orgpublic-dpub-aria@w3.org>
Subject: Proposal: remove aria-describedat from the ARIA 1.1 specification

 

After discussions with Microsoft and following the bug tracker for Firefox
it appears that <details>/<summary> is going to be implemented at some point
in both Edge and Firefox. This addresses the gaps in browser support. A
media query will need to be created at some point to handle the
showing/hiding of this element, and I see those discussions are happening,
but I believe this addresses the requirements of the digital publishing
industry. 

Since this requirement is being met I would like to propose the removal of
aria-describedat from the ARIA 1.1 specification at the next ARIA Working
Group meeting. Are there any objections? Do you agree?

We can vote on the next ARIA WG call but I wanted to give people a heads up.


Rich


Rich Schwerdtfeger