Re: aria-describedby and visibility, what is the expected spec behavior?

On 17 April 2014 18:43, Birkir Gunnarsson <birkir.gunnarsson@deque.com>wrote:

> s this expected behavior for aria-describedby, that assistive technologies
> should communicate the value of the associated labelling elements
> regardless of their visibility settings


yes, refer to section 5.6.1.3. Text Alternative Computation of the ARIA
implementation guide:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-implementation/#mapping_additional_nd


Skip hidden elements unless the author specifies to use them via an
> aria-labelledby or aria-describedby being used in the current
> computation. By default, users of assistive technologies won't receive the
> hidden information, but an author will be able to explicitly override that
> and include the hidden text alternative as part of the label string sent to
> the accessibility API.



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Regards

SteveF
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