Re: ARIA7 Issue with Example 2

I agree that example 2 is confusing. We should remove it.

On Apr 22, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:

> Yes, that is what Example #3 has.
>  
> Jonathan
>  
> From: James Nurthen [mailto:james.nurthen@oracle.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:52 AM
> To: Jonathan Avila
> Cc: WCAG
> Subject: Re: ARIA7 Issue with Example 2
>  
> This would work if we change it to wouldn't it? 
> <p> <span id="report-title">Download 2012 Sales Report:</span>
> <a aria-labelledby="report-title pdf" href="#" id="pdf">PDF</a> |
> <a aria-labelledby="report-title doc" href="#" id="doc">Word</a> |
> <a aria-labelledby="report-title ppt" href="#" id="ppt">Powerpoint</a></p>
>  
> Regards,
> James
>  
> On Apr 22, 2014, at 8:40 AM, Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> As a follow-up to our discussion of updates to the ARIA 7 technique I wanted to share the finding below:
>  
> Example #2 in ARIA 7 does not work correctly with JAWS 15 in IE or NVDA 2014.1 in Firefox.
>  
> <p id="report-title">Download 2012 Sales Report:
> <a aria-labelledby="report-title pdf" href="#" id="pdf">PDF</a> |
> <a aria-labelledby="report-title doc" href="#" id="doc">Word</a> |
> <a aria-labelledby="report-title ppt" href="#" id="ppt">Powerpoint</a></p>
>  
> For each link, the paragraph text including all 3 pieces of link text is announced for each link.  It is very confusing and in my opinion not accessibility supported.
>  
> Jonathan
>  
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Received on Tuesday, 22 April 2014 16:00:16 UTC