- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:08:25 -0700
- To: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Cc: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, public-html@w3.org
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu> wrote: > Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >> Can you provide an example where @aria-describedby does not work as >> well as @longdesc in the real world? > > http://www.cssquirrel.com/comic/?comic=42 > > The author is currently using a belt and suspenders solution, but using > additional CSS to move the in-page link required by aria-describedby off > screen - clearly signaling his visual intent and desire. @longdesc > delivers that intent natively, with no additional 'configuration' or CSS > styling required. I don't know why that page is using such strange CSS to hide the link from normal rendering, a simple "display:none" would have worked just fine. If you additionally wanted to add the intent that the link is not part of normal page flow then a simple 'hidden' attribute would have worked fine once browsers support HTML5. / Jonas
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