- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 13:41:04 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 05/02/2020 08:55, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > To my knowledge, no browser/UA/AT take advantage of the rel="..." > attribute or expose it to the user in any meaningful way. So even > technique H59 is rather dubious to me. There used to be browsers > (probably old versions of Opera) and extensions (I have vague memories > of something for Firefox) that surfaced rel="..." for a page, but this > seems more like a historical quirk that never quite caught on. > > In short, unless you somehow use the rel="..." attribute in some way > yourself (e.g. if you have extra JS that somehow exposes relationship > information like that to the user), I would not bother with those > attributes at all. For what it's worth, I've proposed that the technique should be retired... https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/1036 P -- Patrick H. Lauke https://www.splintered.co.uk/ | https://github.com/patrickhlauke https://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | https://www.deviantart.com/redux twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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