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

Hi Josephthe idea of the aria-destination and similar attributes are for automated personlization, and not to be read by a screen reader, so user defined descriptions will not serve the purpose.




See https://github.com/ayelet-seeman/coga.personalisation for an example.



All the best

Lisa Seeman

Athena ICT Accessibility Projects 
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---- On Fri, 09 Oct 2015 17:05:13 +0300 Joseph Scheuhammer<clown@alum.mit.edu> wrote ---- 

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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