- From: Fred Esch <fesch@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:31:51 -0500
- To: "Chaals McCathie Nevile" <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
- Cc: "public-digipub-ig@w3.org" <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>, public-pfwg@w3.org
- Message-Id: <201511121401.tACE1TJq021142@d01av02.pok.ibm.com>
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Regards,
Fred Esch
Watson, IBM, W3C
Accessibility
IBM Watson Watson Release Management and Quality
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 "Chaals McCathie Nevile" ---11/12/2015 06:23:10 AM---On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:42:47 +0100, Steve Faulkn"><font color="#424282">"Chaals McCathie Nevile" ---11/12/2015 06:23:10 AM---On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:42:47 +0100, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">"Chaals McCathie Nevile" <chaals@yandex-team.ru></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">public-pfwg@w3.org, "public-digipub-ig@w3.org" <public-digipub-ig@w3.org></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 <br><faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br>> On 10 November 2015 at 16:17, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote:<br>><br>>> But, Rich, Details can be used for all kinds of things, including<br>>> advertising, as Charles points out. We need a way to know that this<br>>> particular Details is a description, as opposed to some other in the<br>>> page.<br>>><br>><br>> The aria-roledescription attribute could be used to disambiguate<br>> </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 <br>can be used to provide consistent user interface in a browser, and it's a <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> 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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