Re: Drop longdesc, get aria-describedat?

Janina Sajka, Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:38:53 -0400:

> You should also remember that working groups cannot introduce new
> features into their specifications during the Candidate 
> Recommendation stage of the w3C process. CR is for demonstrating that 
> the spec can be implemented, and for clarifying documentation.

I'm not expert on these rules - and one seems one make new last calls 
all the time, with new features in between the calls. But I get the 
point.

> You'll recall that ARIA 1.0 is currently in CR:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2012Mar/0121.html

Yes. I know. I learned this anew when I, yesterday, filed my bug 
regarding 'description links' inside role=img elements. Which, I, btw, 
tried to formulate in such a way that it did not introduce add too much 
'feature'.

[But I have not had any confirmation as to whether the form worked, so 
that you successfully received my comment.]
-- 
leif h silli

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