- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 08:12:07 -0500
- To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Hi Steve, Silvia, Leif, and all, Silvia wrote: >> Thanks, Laura, for making some of the changes that I suggested. You are welcome. >> I believe from recent discussions that ARIA specifies no such thing, >> but just that this is just the way in which screenreaders have >> implemented support for aria-describedby. Steve replied: > it is not the way screen readers have implemented aria-describedby, its they > way that it has been implemented in browsers. Steve, can you suggest text for this bullet on ARIA [1] to make it more accurate? Leif, if I recall correctly I think you suggested the text for that bullet. Would you be okay with adjusting if it is not accurate? Thanks, Best Regards. Laura [1] "aria-describedby kills off links: ARIA 1.0 specifies that anything that aria-describedby points to is presented to the user as if it occurred inside an attribute. Hence, if aria-describedby points to an element which is - or contains - a link, the link will be completely dead - the AT won't even inform the user about the link presence." http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/InstateLongdesc/AlternativesAreNotViableSolutions#aria-describedby -- Laura L. Carlson
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