Re: Action-1734, Action-1708, Action-1709: Proposal for a Figure Role

Hi Jason,

This is in response to this post from you:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg/2015Oct/0025.html and my
action item 1734.

I spoke with Steve Faulkner and he stated captions were more being used as
descriptions and not basic captions. Consequently He had asked that a
reference to a caption be a reference to a description and by default this
meant an aria-describedby mapping to the long description. In HTML Steve
was going to map <caption> through an aria-describedby relationship.

... Note: we are talking about extended descriptions in which case we would
not want the results to be stringified and I think we can address this by
placing a new type of extended Role attribute on the caption area.

Rich


Rich Schwerdtfeger