started to defining accessible name/description calculation for form controls from Steve Faulkner on 2011-02-03 (public-html-a11y@w3.org from February 2011)

From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:46:52 +0000
To: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com>, David Bolter <dbolter@mozilla.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTin6b6QgiHd2-zEn7BSM3vRMWnWxZd+363ZyaCF6@mail.gmail.com>

feedback appreciated (except the 'this is a load of sh*t' kind)
http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-api-map/overview.html#calc

the impetus for this is the divergence already apparent in the way that
firefox/webkit map the placeholder attribute to accessibility API
properties:
http://www.html5accessibility.com/tests/placeholder-labelling.html

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with regards

Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG

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