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

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote:

> Is there another way that preserves the "no AT required" benefit? I
> regret I don't see what it could be, but it would be good if we could
> find a reliable robust way to do this without requiring AT.
>
>
Sure: acknowledge that plenty of already existing ARIA markup has vital
uses to keyboard, magnification, and other disabled users who don't use AT,
and accept that it might be time to stop restricting ARIA to AT users only.

Deborah Kaplan

Received on Tuesday, 10 November 2015 20:52:03 UTC