Re: [svg-aam] Should structured descriptions be exposed in the accessibility tree? (#6)

Do you imagine something like `aria-describedby` pointing at a `foreignObject` (HTML) which would put the screen reader in browse mode somehow? I would find this **very** useful. 

We are replacing some `text` and `tspan` elements with `foreignObject` HTML in the hope that the default HTML5 semantics therein (headings, lists) could be made available somehow, but I don't know what the 'approved' mechanism for that would be. 

Currently, we just copy the text nodes from the foreign object into an `aria-label`, which gets announced, but is hardly ideal - since it just becomes plain text. In our case, the semantic text **is** rendered on-screen, but I can imagine cases where we would not want to do that.

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