Re: Proposal: remove aria-describedat from the ARIA 1.1 specification

What the digital publishing industry was requesting in this particular
case was a single mechanism for extended descriptions which always means
extended description, and only means extended description.

Deborah Kaplan

On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Steve Faulkner wrote:

> arai-flowto is another mechanism that could be used to provide a relationship between content and description
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> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-flowto
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> Regards
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> SteveF
> Current Standards Work @W3C
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> On 5 November 2015 at 16:20, Deborah Kaplan <dkaplan@safaribooksonline.com> wrote:
>       On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
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>             You could link it via aria-describedby to whatever you are describing.  This way you have an explicit extended
>             description.
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>       But aria-describedby is for non-extended descriptions, standard
>       descriptions that can't be associated with standard controls. Admittedly
>       the formal description of the element is ambiguous, in that it
>       explicitly clarifies that a description is more verbose than a label,
>       but currently all AT (I believe) treats aria-describedby as a
>       non-extended description which should be placed in the normal flow and
>       not reported as special. Is the proposal that aria-describedby should
>       always mean extended descriptions, and anything which is less verbose
>       than an extended description belongs in a label? If that's the case, the
>       formal definition of aria-describedby will need to be clarified, and
>       screenreader manufacturers will need to be asked to change the behavior
>       accordingly (e.g. to treat aria-describedby like longdesc, not like
>       aria-labelledby).
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>       Deborah Kaplan
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>             Rich Schwerdtfeger
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>             Inactive hide details for Deborah Kaplan ---11/05/2015 10:07:45 AM---On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Richard Schwerdtfeger
>             wrote: > but I b Deborah
>             Kaplan ---11/05/2015 10:07:45 AM---On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote: > but I believe this
>             addresses the requirements of
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>             From: Deborah Kaplan <dkaplan@safaribooksonline.com>
>             To: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
>             Cc: WAI Protocols & Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>, DPUB-ARIA <public-dpub-aria@w3.org>
>             Date: 11/05/2015 10:07 AM
>             Subject: Re: Proposal: remove aria-describedat from the ARIA 1.1  specification
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>             On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
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>             > but I believe this addresses the requirements of
>             > the digital publishing industry.
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>             One of our biggest concerns was that this extended description be
>             something that could be semantically identified AS an extended
>             description. Was this addressed in discussions at TPAC? Based on the
>             email that has gone by, I have not seen anything that will distinguish
>             extended descriptions in <details> elements from anything else in a
>             <details> element.
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>             Deborah Kaplan
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