- From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:21:17 -0700
- To: Aaron M Leventhal <aleventh@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: Cynthia Shelly <cyns@exchange.microsoft.com>, George Young <gcyoung@microsoft.com>, Jon Gunderson <jongund@illinois.edu>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Aaron M Leventhal wrote: > Why do you do the aria-labelledby pointing into the span? > Otherwise the accessible name for the top level items encompasses > all the subitems too, right? > > I didn't realize that we need to do that. I'm not sure if this is a > better way anymore -- it's confusing for authors to have to do that. That won't be needed, and won't be quite so confusing, once aria-label is implemented. Or, we could potentially change "nameFrom: subtree" so that it does not include subtree nodes matching role="group"… James
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