Re: use of aria-hidden to provide a text description not visible on the page.

Richard Schwerdtfeger, Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:13:26 -0500:
> aria-describedby pointing to hidden content results in the help 
> content (that is hidden) populating the MSAA accessible description.
> 
> If the label is hidden you have a problem as the IA2 accessibility 
> API need to point to the label through the labelled relationship. If 
> it is hidden there is no place to reference. 

As mentioned [*] there appears to be a workaround for IA2: As long as 
at least one of the idrefs of @aria-label is visible (even if it is 
empty or even if it is just the current element itself), then all of 
the label elements will be treated as visible. 

[*] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2010Sep/0016
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leif halvard silli

Received on Sunday, 19 September 2010 22:41:24 UTC