Re: use of aria-hidden to provide a text description not visible on the page. from T.V Raman on 2010-10-13 (wai-xtech@w3.org from October 2010)

From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:30:39 -0700
To: david.bolter@gmail.com
Cc: jcraig@apple.com, andisnow@us.ibm.com, faulkner.steve@gmail.com, wai-xtech@w3.org, public-html-a11y@w3.org
Message-ID: <19638.9471.802639.696666@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com>

1+ on not explicitly hiding things from AT. If there is things
that should be spoken and not rendered visually --- say because
the same info is present via a visual icon, that should be done
through the styling layer.

David Bolter writes:
 >   On 12/10/10 4:18 PM, James Craig wrote:
 > >
 > > On Oct 12, 2010, at 12:19 PM, David Bolter wrote:
 > >
 > >> We have role="presentation".
 > >
 > > That's different than aria-hidden. Presentation still exposes text 
 > > contents.
 > >
 > 
 > Good point, however I don't like the idea of hiding text from AT only.
 > 
 > D

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