- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:09:27 +0300
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Cc: "Steven Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, jgraham@opera.com, "HTMLWG WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Apr 16, 2009, at 01:59, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > However, rel="help" or aria-describedBy is probably better than the > suggestion that the title attribute will do it, given that the title > attribute is a complicated mess of expectations and assuming > particular behaviour for it has proven to be problematic. How could rel=help, which implies the help text would be structured text at another URI, be better than using a simple string from an attribute that Opera 9 already supports for this purpose at least visually? Would rel=help come with roughly similar cans of worms as longdesc? If I enter an ftp URI in the address box on http://html5.validator.nu/ in Opera 9 or 10 and hit enter, I get a visual popup that tells me the format of the input is wrong and then includes the value of the title attribute (per current spec). Why wouldn't an HTML5 forms-aware browser expose that popup to AT the same way such a GUI popup would be exposed to AT in a non-browser app? Why should AT have to know which attribute the text came from? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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