- From: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:16:45 -0500
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, public-html@w3.org
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > On Oct 28, 2009, at 00:01, Jonas Sicking wrote: > >> <p id="desc" hidden> >> ...description here... >> </p> > > This is problematic, because the hidden attribute is suppose to hide content > on all media--including pruning the content out of the accessible tree. > > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivonen@iki.fi > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ > > > > Agreed. The concept of "hidden" when it comes to accessibility features is being misunderstood. The accessibility features like longdesc are not hidden, they're visible to a different audience. (Not related to this discussion, but expect hidden, the attribute, to appear in a bug soon.) Shelley
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