- From: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:36:35 -0500
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>,Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
Hi Laura, At 02:28 PM 1/24/2012 -0600, Laura Carlson wrote: >Hi Janina and Judy, > ><...> > > <Judy> js: Philippe I was wondering about Laura's question or > > assertion that Jonas and Ian might in the meantime be > > working on another approach? Do you have any thoughts about whether > > there might be work going on in the background? > >The delay allowed time for Jonas' hidden proposal [1] to be >incorporate into the editor's draft. Ian changed the editor's draft >[2] [3] to say, > >"The hidden attribute must not be used to hide content that could >legitimately be shown in another presentation... if something is >marked hidden, it is hidden from all presentations, including, for >instance, screen readers..." > >It goes on 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." Thanks for the info about this change in the meantime on a related issue. Looking into that. - Judy >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
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