- From: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:00:23 -0500
- To: "W3C WAI Protocols & Formats" <public-pfwg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <OFB2B14DF3.07F9EEDD-ON86257CAB.007AFCC5-86257CAB.007E60AC@us.ibm.com>
I abbreviated the name to aria-roledesc as it is too long. Note: SVG has a
<desc> element. In the discussion we agreed to limit the roles that this
attribute would be applied to in ARIA 1.1 to "group" and "region".
The following is spec. text for aria-roledesc for the states and properties
spec file.
<div class="property" id="aria-roledesc">
<h3 class="property-name"
id="aria-roledesc_header"><code>aria-roledesc</code> <span
class="type-indicator">(property)</span></h3>
<p class="permalink"><a href="states_and_properties#aria-roledesc"
title="Permalink for aria-roledesc">#</a></p>
<div class="property-description">
<p>Provides a human readable, localized string name for the role of
the element. The role of the element <em>MUST</em> have a computed value of
<a class="role-reference" href="roles#goup"><code>group</code></a> or <a
class="role-reference" href="roles#region"><code>region</code</a> to apply
aria-roledesc.</p>
<p class="note" role="note">Note: The computed role of the element is
localized by applicable assistive technologies. The aria-roledesc property
provides a mechanism for the author to provide that localized string in its
place.</p>
</div>
<table class="property-features">
<caption>Characteristics of aria-roledesc</caption>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Characteristic</th><th
scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><th class="property-applicability-head" scope="row">Used in
Roles:</th>
<td class="property-applicability">
<ul>
<li><a class="role-reference"
href="roles#goup"><code>group</code></a></li>
<li><a class="role-reference"
href="roles#region"><code>region</code></a></li>
<ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><th class="property-value-head" scope="row">Value:</th>
<td class="property-value"><a href="
states_and_properties#valuetype_string">string</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
The following spec. text goes into role group and role region under
supported states and properties:
<li><a class="property-reference-" href="
states_and_properties#aria-roledesc"><code>aria-roledesc</code></a>
(noninhertitable by subclass roles)</li>
We will need to make sure the model generator picks this change up.
Rich Schwerdtfeger
Received on Sunday, 30 March 2014 23:01:07 UTC