- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:11:33 +0100
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, public-html@w3.org, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote: > Comment: It seems safe to assume that that authors will become > surprised: > > 1. Some will be surprised that <p hidden id=description> gets > presented to users despite the hidden attribute. > 2. Others will be surprised (if they learn it at all) that > VoiceOver currently flattens *any* aria-describedby > referred content. Agreed. Doubtless some will also be surprised if @hidden content _is not_ presented. I have a suspicion this may be the smaller group. If we had stuck with the original name of @irrelevant, this would have less surprising. > I must honestly say, however, that it, on the surface, seems illogical > to assume that there ought - or can - be a difference with regard to > "flattening" depending on whether the content is hidden or visible. Agreed. > Thus, I don't believe that authors will find it very surprising that > hidden content can be rendered as "rich" content to AT users. On the > contrary, I think that authors would expect to be able to use ARIA to > draw those kind of links. Agreed. I've seen well-meaning authors ask about exposing DOM subtrees to screenreader users only, however misguided this might be from a universal accessibility perspective and however poorly fitted ARIA is to this task. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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