- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:23:36 +1100
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>, Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, Monika Trebo <mtrebo@stanford.edu>
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 >
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