RE: suggestions for new roles and properties in ARIA next

James Craig wrote:
> 
> > aria-description="text"
> >
> > like aria-label except it maps to the acc description in
> accessibility APIs
> >
> > provides a means of including an extended text description internal
> to
> > an element , could be used in place of table summary attribute. for
> > images when an accessible name is not provided but a description is.
> 
> Kind of seems like you're stretching description to support the
> semantics of @summary and maybe @longdesc. What makes you certain this
> necessary?

Hi James,

What makes you believe it's not?

JF

Received on Wednesday, 20 April 2011 04:15:36 UTC