Re: ISSUE-30 longdesc - Chairs Solicit Alternate Proposals or Counter-Proposals

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

Received on Thursday, 2 June 2011 16:19:20 UTC