- From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:59:56 +0000
- To: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
- Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>, Andi Snow-Weaver <andisnow@us.ibm.com>
Hi all, suggest it would be useful for someone with the requisite knowledge of the various ARIA spec responds on the html wg to Bens questions: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Feb/0189.html regards Stevef ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com> Date: 13 February 2012 20:57 Subject: Re: Split Issue 30? To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, public-html@w3.org On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote: > ing aria-describedby for long text descriptions is a dead issue from the > PF's perspective. If this is the PFWG's position, why isn't it reflected in the ARIA documents maintained by PFWG, for example: http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-practices/#Descriptions_external > Attempts so to do overload describedby. That's unacceptable. > > Even should it prove there's some way by which browsers might pass > marked up content to the a11y APIs so that these APIs will not flatten > that content to straight text You mean like the ways the ARIA implementation guide suggests? http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-implementation/#mapping_additional_relations_reverse_relations > describedby still does not meet the > requirements of a long text mechanism. > Specifically, describedby is > intended for content that is to be read automatically as it is > encountered. That seems like critical information about aria-describedby. If that's the PF's position, why doesn't the formal definition of aria-describedby say that: http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/states_and_properties#aria-describedby See also the other links I already collected, which show that the spec text around aria-describedby is very different from what you're describing: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Feb/0010.html -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com | www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives - dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/ Web Accessibility Toolbar - www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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