Re: Current spec text [Was: longdesc Issue 30 deserves to be resolved]

Just a nitpick: with "hidden proposal" you mean "a proposal on
referencing hidden text" rather than "a proposal that was hidden away
from us" (which was my initial reading). :-)
Cheers,
Silvia.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Laura Carlson
<laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Janina,
>
>> Laura Carlson writes:
>>> * Your delay has also allowed Jonas to work with Ian to incorporate
>>> his hidden proposal into the editor's draft. Your delay biases the
>>> issue.
>>>
>>
>> Can you say more on this, or perhaps provide a pointer or two?
>
> Yes, I just did on a reply to the minutes. Basically the delay
> allowed time for Jonas' hidden proposal [1] to be incorporate into the
>  editor's draft. Jonas had proposed changing the following spec text:
>
> "Elements that are not hidden should not link to or refer to elements
> that are hidden."
>
> to
>
> "Elements that are not hidden should not link to or refer to elements
> that are hidden. However, ARIA attributes are exempted from this rule
> and are allowed to point to contents inside hidden elements"
>
> Ian changed the editor's draft [2] [3] to say,
>
> "It would be fine, however, to use the ARIA aria-describedby attribute
> to refer to descriptions that are themselves hidden. While hiding the
> descriptions implies that they are not useful alone, they could be
> written in such a way that they are useful in the specific context of
> being referenced from the images that they describe."
>
> Best Regards,
> Laura
>
> [1] http://tinyurl.com/82rf7vq
> [2] http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6894&to=6895
> [3] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/editing.html#the-hidden-attribute
>
> --
> Laura L. Carlson
>

Received on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:24:24 UTC