Re: Proposal: remove aria-describedat from the ARIA 1.1 specification

arai-flowto is another mechanism that could be used to provide a
relationship between content and description

http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-flowto

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Regards

SteveF
Current Standards Work @W3C
<http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/>

On 5 November 2015 at 16:20, Deborah Kaplan <dkaplan@safaribooksonline.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
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>> You could link it via aria-describedby to whatever you are describing.
>> This way you have an explicit extended description.
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> But aria-describedby is for non-extended descriptions, standard
> descriptions that can't be associated with standard controls. Admittedly
> the formal description of the element is ambiguous, in that it
> explicitly clarifies that a description is more verbose than a label,
> but currently all AT (I believe) treats aria-describedby as a
> non-extended description which should be placed in the normal flow and
> not reported as special. Is the proposal that aria-describedby should
> always mean extended descriptions, and anything which is less verbose
> than an extended description belongs in a label? If that's the case, the
> formal definition of aria-describedby will need to be clarified, and
> screenreader manufacturers will need to be asked to change the behavior
> accordingly (e.g. to treat aria-describedby like longdesc, not like
> aria-labelledby).
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> Deborah Kaplan
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>> Rich Schwerdtfeger
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>> Inactive hide details for Deborah Kaplan ---11/05/2015 10:07:45 AM---On
>> Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote: > but I b Deborah
>> Kaplan ---11/05/2015 10:07:45 AM---On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Richard
>> Schwerdtfeger wrote: > but I believe this addresses the requirements of
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>> From: Deborah Kaplan <dkaplan@safaribooksonline.com>
>> To: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
>> Cc: WAI Protocols & Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>, DPUB-ARIA <
>> public-dpub-aria@w3.org>
>> Date: 11/05/2015 10:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: Proposal: remove aria-describedat from the ARIA 1.1
>>  specification
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>> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
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>> > but I believe this addresses the requirements of
>> > the digital publishing industry.
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>> One of our biggest concerns was that this extended description be
>> something that could be semantically identified AS an extended
>> description. Was this addressed in discussions at TPAC? Based on the
>> email that has gone by, I have not seen anything that will distinguish
>> extended descriptions in <details> elements from anything else in a
>> <details> element.
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>> Deborah Kaplan
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