- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:18:48 -0700
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, HTML WG LIST <public-html@w3.org>
On Jun 2, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer > <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am told that right now browsers turn the html snippet that >> aria-describedby points to into plain text before giving it to >> accessibiltiy APIs and thus screen readers cannot e.g. change their >> accent to a different content language, or point out that there's a >> url to another resource. >> >> Thus, I suggest your change proposal should also include that browsers >> need to expose the markup of the html snippet(s) that aria-describedby >> points to to accessibility APIs. > > That conflicts with the information I'm getting from the Firefox > accessibility team. At least for non-hidden content Firefox should be > fully exposed including all its html semantics to AT users. > > In any case, ARIA is already requiring what you're asking for. This is > why I was suggesting that the HTML spec simply points this fact out > while referring to the ARIA spec. I'm not sure if WebKit (or Safari in particular) exposes full semantics of aria-describedby content, but I tentatively think it is a reasonable requirement, whether stated in ARIA or in HTML or both. Regards, Maciej
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