- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:34:46 +0100
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
David, just wanted to add that @linked-anchor would be focused on reusing the @href, wheras @aria-describedby is focused on reusing the textual content. Leif Halvard Silli, Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:58:59 +0100: > To be able to, effectively, reuse visual links - which I agree is a > noble goal, we would need not @longdesc and not @aria-describedAT [if > it would become just like @longdesc] but a new attribute - let's call > it @linked-anchor: > > <img src=s alt=a linked-anchor=linked > > <a id=linked href='long-description'>Image description.</a> > > The effect of @linked-anchor should be to reuse the URL of the anchor > as longdesc link. Unless we add more rules for how it works - such as a > rule to ignore the longdesc effect if the next element is the linked > anchor, then the above link would be presented twice to AT users: Once > as longdesc link, and once in the normal flow. But if the above link > got an @aria-hidden='true' or @hidden or style='display:none', then it > would only be presented once. > > Such a @linked-anchor could be presented to users - AT user as well as > other users - exactly the same way that @longdesc is presented. -- Leif H Silli
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