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

I've attempted to incorporate everyone's feedback here:
https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/action-1714/aria/aria.html#figure

--joanie

On 10/06/2015 10:20 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
>     *I reviewed this with with Steve Faulkner. It may require some
>     wordsmithing but we are good to go. Steve is also ok with not having
>     a caption role. *
> 
> 
>     *figure  *
>     *     A perceivable section of content which supports the main
>     document, and should be easily perceivable regardless of its
>     position in the layout that can contain a graphical document, an
>     image or other content such as code snippets or example text.*
> 
>     *Authors SHOULD provide a reference to the figure from the main
>     text, but the figure need not be displayed at the same location as
>     the referencing element."
> 
>     A figure MAY have an associated description representing a caption
>     and may have an associated label.**_
> 
>     _**_Assistive technologies_*
>     <http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/aria.html#dfn-assistive-technologies>*�**/SHOULD/**�enable
>     users to quickly navigate to figures. Mainstream **_user agents_*
>     <http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/aria.html#dfn-user-agent>*�**/MAY/**�enable
>     users to quickly navigate to figures.*
> 
>     *Is abstract: False*
>     *Superclass Role: section*
>     *Subclass Roles:*
>     *Inherited States and Properties: (inherits from section)*
>     *Name From: author*
>     *Accessible Name Required: False*
> 
> 
> 
> Rich Schwerdtfeger

Received on Thursday, 8 October 2015 18:24:32 UTC