Re: False aria-describedby expectations in ARIA Authoring Practices (longdesc)

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>wrote:

>  Hi Jonas,
>
> ARIA is going through Candidate Recommendation so changing the browser
> implementation this late in the game is problematic. I read through the code
> and I don't see what the patch does for accessibility. It appears to simply
> be iterating through valid ids that match the describedby reference. What
> are you actually doing with this patch as it is not clear?
>
Huh? I don't understand why the spec status affects the ability to fix bugs
in the various implementations? Going to rec freezes the spec, not the
implementations.

/ Jonas

Received on Tuesday, 26 April 2011 20:45:30 UTC