Re: ISSUE-636 CTION-1398 Provide spec. text for aria-roledescription from Steve Faulkner on 2014-04-01 (public-pfwg@w3.org from April 2014)

From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 15:32:10 +0100
To: Matthew King <mattking@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "lisa.seeman" <lisa.seeman@zoho.com>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, "W3C WAI Protocols & Formats" <public-pfwg@w3.org>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
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On 1 April 2014 15:23, Matthew King <mattking@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> My understanding is that <div role="region" roledescription="chapter" ....
> would still expose the role of the div to the AT as region. None of the
> role information is lost.


what do AT currently do, on Mac for example, does VoiceOver announce both
role an role description?
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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

Received on Tuesday, 1 April 2014 14:33:17 UTC