Re: Microsoft IE bug regarding aria-describedby and the accessibility tree Description property

On 6 June 2014 18:44, Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>
wrote:

> Interesting, there is no mention of this in the spec…
>
> http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/spec/aria.html#aria-describedby
>

>
its an implementation detail and authoring issue, suggest filing bugs
against the ARIA implementation guide and authoring practices docs.


>  How would developers ever know this is required for one browser but not
> others?
>

by telling them

>
>
> And why should there be a difference?
>

its a limitation of IE's implementation.

I  first reported this back in 2010
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2010Jul/0003.html. At the
time microsoft wontfixed, then decided to fix, but constrained by the
limitation I described.

Unfortunately the related IE bug [1] is no longer available to view. In it
microsoft responded with pretty much the information I provided about the
need to use tabindex=-1 etc


[1] https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/555280/ie-platform-preview-does-not-support-multiple-values-in-aria-labelledby-and-does-not-support-aria-describedby








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Regards

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