Re: proliferation of reference roles in the dpub aria spec.

Hi Rich,

> As I said, I have had somewhat of a concern about the numerous 
> definition of roles that are essentially links. The Coga task force 
> wants to introduce and aria-destination attribute for links to create 
> standard destinations users would go to to enable consistent style of 
> the UI for familiarity to the user. 

Was aria-roledescription considered?

" Defines a human-readable, author-localized description for the role of 
an element." [1]

For example,
<div role="link" aria-roledescription="Glossary Entry"> ... </div>

[1] http://w3c.github.io/aria/aria/aria.html#aria-roledescription

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Received on Friday, 9 October 2015 14:05:29 UTC