Re: Alternative to @aria-describedAT: <a role=img>

Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@målform.no> wrote:
> Proposal for ARIA.next: <a role=img> and/or <a role=descLink>.
> 
> In more detail: Yesterday, I published a PROTOTYPE of an ARIA based 
> long description link technique for the <img> element. [1] Based on 
> what ARIA *currently* allows, this is the technique, in one sentence:
> 
>   An <a> element with @role=img and whose @aria-label
>   contains an image description plus an announcement of 
>   the long description link, is wrapped around the <img>.

How do you handle the case in which the image is already a link? That is, the
image is a link to a resource, hence the child of an anchor element, but you
also want to associate with it a second link to a description.

Received on Friday, 6 April 2012 03:24:49 UTC