Re: Regarding aria-details and current support?

>  aria-description is also poor man’s replacement fallback for
aria-roledescription

I'm not sure what that sentence means Stefan! Feel free to use it even if
you are rich :)

We worked pretty hard to update the ARIA spec itself with information on
when to use aria-description/describedby, aria-details and
aria-roledecription. Stefan, maybe you should review that and see whether
there is anything vague or confusing.

Aaron





On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 11:05 AM Schnabel, Stefan <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>
wrote:

> As I understand from previous group discussions, aria-description is also
> poor man’s replacement fallback for aria-roledescription (which is
> considered as being evil in many cases).
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> Therefore it is of interest if aria-description is already supported IN
> PRACTICE on any role in case role name should be left untouched.
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> Also APG info and guidance when to take what, of course.
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>    - Stefan
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>
> *From:* Aaron Leventhal <aleventhal@google.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, 16 October 2023 16:51
> *To:* Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@whatsock.com>;
> public-aria-practices@w3.org; Accessible Rich Internet Applications
> Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Regarding aria-details and current support?
>
>
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> We also need to look at more test cases for aria-description, now that
> it's more universal, right?
>
> There are use cases for aria-description to exist on generic containers.
> Also, it needs to work well in various screen reader modes, and in editing
> contexts.
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> On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 10:14 PM Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The only thing I know definitively is that We don’t yet have any
> aria-details test cases or tests written for it in APG and aria-at. Help is
> wanted.
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>
> Matt
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>
> *From:* Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@whatsock.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 12, 2023 8:24 AM
> *To:* public-aria-practices@w3.org; 'Accessible Rich Internet
> Applications Working Group' <public-aria@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Regarding aria-details and current support?
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any public behavior and support information for
> aria-details and whether it is sufficiently supported by browsers and
> screen readers as yet?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bryan
>
>