Re: Proposal: remove aria-describedat from the ARIA 1.1 specification from Michiel Bijl on 2015-11-10 (public-digipub-ig@w3.org from November 2015)

From: Michiel Bijl <michiel@agosto.nl>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:17:10 +0100
To: Deborah Kaplan <dkaplan@safaribooksonline.com>
Cc: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, "White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org>, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, Daniel Weck <daniel.weck@gmail.com>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, Avneesh Singh <avneesh.sg@gmail.com>, Charles LaPierre <charlesl@benetech.org>, Juan Corona <juanc@evidentpoint.com>, George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com>, "DPUB mailing list (public-digipub-ig@w3.org)" <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>, "PF (public-pfwg@w3.org)" <public-pfwg@w3.org>, Ric Wright <rkwright@geofx.com>, "Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken" <tsiegman@wiley.com>, Zheng Xu <zxu@kobo.com>
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I agree. I see a mouse and a keyboard as much as AT as a screen reader; without my keyboard, I’d have no access.

—Michiel

> On 10 Nov 2015, at 21:51, Deborah Kaplan <dkaplan@safaribooksonline.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net <mailto: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

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