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

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     Regards,                                                 
                                                              
    Fred Esch                                                 
 Watson, IBM, W3C                                             
  Accessibility                                               
                                                              
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From:	"Chaals McCathie Nevile" <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
To:	public-pfwg@w3.org, "public-digipub-ig@w3.org"
            <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
Date:	11/12/2015 06:23 AM
Subject:	Re: FW: Proposal: remove aria-describedat from the ARIA 1.1
            specification



On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:42:47 +0100, Steve Faulkner
<faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10 November 2015 at 16:17, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote:
>
>> But, Rich, Details can be used for all kinds of things, including
>> advertising, as Charles points out. We need a way to know that this
>> particular Details is a description, as opposed to some other in the
>> page.
>>
>
> The aria-roledescription attribute could be used to disambiguate
> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-roledescription

Yes.

Except it provides a human-readable description rather than something that

can be used to provide consistent user interface in a browser, and it's a
pretty clunky approach.

I'm not a fan of the proposal.

cheers

--
Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex
  chaals@yandex-team.ru - - - Find more at http://yandex.com



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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr valign="top"><td width="473" colspan="2" valign="middle"><div align="center"><font size="4" face="Verdana">Regards, <br><br>Fred Esch <br>Watson, IBM, W3C Accessibility</font></div></td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td width="130" valign="middle"><img src="cid:1__=0ABBF468DFD9C4E58f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" width="163" height="23" alt="IBM Watson" align="bottom"></td><td width="342" valign="middle"><font size="4" face="Verdana">Watson Release Management and Quality </font></td></tr></table><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:2__=0ABBF468DFD9C4E58f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for &quot;Chaals McCathie Nevile&quot; ---11/12/2015 06:23:10 AM---On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:42:47 +0100, Steve Faulkn"><font color="#424282">&quot;Chaals McCathie Nevile&quot; ---11/12/2015 06:23:10 AM---On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:42:47 +0100, Steve Faulkner   &lt;faulkner.steve@gmail.com&gt; wrote:</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From:        </font><font size="2">&quot;Chaals McCathie Nevile&quot; &lt;chaals@yandex-team.ru&gt;</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To:        </font><font size="2">public-pfwg@w3.org, &quot;public-digipub-ig@w3.org&quot; &lt;public-digipub-ig@w3.org&gt;</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date:        </font><font size="2">11/12/2015 06:23 AM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject:        </font><font size="2">Re: FW: Proposal: remove aria-describedat from the ARIA 1.1  specification</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br><tt>On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:42:47 +0100, Steve Faulkner &nbsp;<br>&lt;faulkner.steve@gmail.com&gt; wrote:<br><br>&gt; On 10 November 2015 at 16:17, Janina Sajka &lt;janina@rednote.net&gt; wrote:<br>&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; But, Rich, Details can be used for all kinds of things, including<br>&gt;&gt; advertising, as Charles points out. We need a way to know that this<br>&gt;&gt; particular Details is a description, as opposed to some other in the<br>&gt;&gt; page.<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; The aria-roledescription attribute could be used to disambiguate<br>&gt; </tt><tt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-roledescription">http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-roledescription</a></tt><tt><br><br>Yes.<br><br>Except it provides a human-readable description rather than something that &nbsp;<br>can be used to provide consistent user interface in a browser, and it's a &nbsp;<br>pretty clunky approach.<br><br>I'm not a fan of the proposal.<br><br>cheers<br><br>-- <br>Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex<br> &nbsp;chaals@yandex-team.ru - - - Find more at </tt><tt><a href="http://yandex.com">http://yandex.com</a></tt><tt><br><br></tt><br><BR>
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