- From: Matthew Turvey <mcturvey@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 13:21:53 +0100
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On 2 April 2012 17:13, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com> wrote: > 1. aria-describedby *doesn't* provide a particularly usable way of getting > to a description off the page, and more importantly In this context, putting a normal link on the image is the most usable way of providing a long description. How can aria-describedat be made as easy and intuitive to use as a normal link? The advantage of using aria-describedby as an enhancement *where required* is it still "works" in UAs that don't support ARIA, and for users that don't know to use ARIA, and when authors use ARIA incorrectly. As I understand it, aria-describedby was specifically designed to point to element(s) on the page to avoid repeating the same mistakes that made longdesc a disaster: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Sep/0596.html > 2. aria-describedby flattens everything to plain text, which is only > suitable for some of the use cases. See http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-practices/#Descriptions_external -Matt
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