- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:28:22 +0200
- To: PFWG Public Comments <public-pfwg-comments@w3.org>
Janina Sajka, Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:45:00 +0000: My answer is at the bottom of the letter. > Comment 372: Include description URLs (with longdesc as example) in > the img role > Date: 2012-03-14 > Archived at: UNSET > Relates to: WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide - 5.4. Role > mapping > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-wai-aria-implementation-20120110/#mapping_role> > Status: Proposal not accepted > > ------------- > Your comment: > ------------- > See, the ARIA draft's description of the 'img' role. > > The description fails to cover the 'img' role properly: The role > description includes pointers to the definition of <img> in the host > languages HTML4 and and DTB, both of which can include a longdesc > attribute. But despite these examples in the host languages elements, ARIA > does no not include or mention longdesc - or 'description URLs' as one > could call it more generally - in its description of the 'img' role. > > In a situation where @longdesc place in HTML5 is contested, this could be > interpreted as if even ARIA is contesting the usefulness of > @longdesc/description urls. > > That anyone who opens the one-page version of ARIA, will be able to search > and locate 'longdesc', will be very useful. > > > -------------------------------- > Response from the Working Group: > -------------------------------- > @longdesc is an HTML attribute and this is out of scope for the WAI-ARIA > User Agent Implementation Guide. Even though we have a few places where > HTML-specific information is included, we have tried to minimize it so that > the UAIG is applicable to any host language that implements WAI-ARIA. > Browsers implementing HTML must expose the @longdesc information to ATs > independently of whether or not the element has a WAI-ARIA role or other > WAI-ARIA attributes. The title of my comment went, when I delete the parenthesis, like so: "Include description URLs in the img role". My comment did thus not say "Include longdesc in the img role". In other words: I proposed that the img role is changed. That said, I understand that a new global URL attribute, without particular link to the img role, is planned for ARIA 1.1. So I will just accept the "not accepted" conclusion. Leif Halvard Silli
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