Re: ISSUE-30 (Longdesc) Change Proposal

Jonas Sicking wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie> wrote:
>>> For the cases when rendering the link is not desired, the link can
>>> simply be hidden using CSS or the @hidden attribute. Or you can place
>>> the link in the <head> which is never rendered.
>> Again, UAs that would need to find this link, may not be able to do so
>> currently. That could be changed as new behaviour could be modeled
>> depending on context. Again, this is partially a user agent issue.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow. If the IDREF pointed to the link, why wouldn't
> it be able to find it? A simple call to document.getElementById should
> do the trick. That wouldn't be affected if the link his hidden or not.
> This is what the Firefox implementation of aria-describedby does.

Ok, cool.

Cheers

Josh

Received on Friday, 30 October 2009 16:34:16 UTC