hi jim, aria-describedby can be used to point off page <img alt="2009 results table" aria-describedby="desc"> <a href="description.html" id="desc">description of table</a> regards stevef 2009/9/15 Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com> > Laura L. Carlson wrote: > > > (NOTE: it is understood that aria-describedby cannot point off page > directly.) > > Ouch. Is it too late to allow URLs in place of IDREFs? (IDREFs could > of course still be done as #fragments.) > > Or, at the very least, could the link suggestion be explicitly added > -- that aria itself would say that if the target ID is a link, then > the description is in the target of the link, rather than its > contents? > > (HTML5 could probably do this by itself if it needs to ... but this > seems like something that ought to be fixed at the source level -- in > this case, the aria spec.) > > -jJ > > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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