Re: WCAG 2.0 Comment Submission ( LC-2920)

 Dear Sailesh Panchang ,

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has reviewed the
comments you sent [1] on the Last Call Working Draft [2] of the Techniques
for WCAG 2.0 published on 6 Mar 2014. Thank you for having taken the time
to review the document and to send us comments!

The Working Group's response to your comment is included below.

Please review it carefully and let us know by email at
public-comments-wcag20@w3.org if you agree with it or not before 1 May
2014. In case of disagreement, you are requested to provide a specific
solution for or a path to a consensus with the Working Group. If such a
consensus cannot be achieved, you will be given the opportunity to raise a
formal objection which will then be reviewed by the Director during the
transition of this document to the next stage in the W3C Recommendation
Track.

Thanks,

For the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group,
Michael Cooper
W3C Staff Contact

 1. http://www.w3.org/mid/E1WXuv4-0000nv-7r@stuart.w3.org
 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20140306/


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Your comment on ARIA7: Using aria-labelledby for link purpose:
> While the aria-describedby (ARIA1) test procedure  actually describes
> how the attribute can be used to satisfy certain SC by providing
> additional contextual info, the test procedure 
> for aria-labelledby (ARIA7) does not do this and only tests for
> correctness of id values. 
> Current:
> Check that each ID in the value of the aria-labelledby attribute matches
> an ID of a text 
> element used as part of the link purpose.
> 
> 
> Proposed Change:
> Add: The Text referenced by the aria-labelled attribute adequately
> describes the link's 
> purpose.


Working Group Resolution (LC-2920):
Thank you for your comment.  The working group agrees that an additional
step in the test procedure is needed.

We will add step #2:
Check that the combined value of the text referenced by the one or more
ID's in the aria-labelledby attribute properly describes the purpose of the
link element.

This change will appear in the next public review draft.

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Received on Tuesday, 22 April 2014 21:59:33 UTC