On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:04 AM, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca> wrote: > I think as well that your characterization of "dissent" w.r.t. Gecko and > Blink > is, shall I say, somewhat exaggerated, but (again) I think we should ask > these > actors directly, and neither you nor I assume anything. > Just to be clear, then, I officially object/dissent to the language "User agents should provide a device-independent mechanism to allow a user to..." used anywhere in the ARIA spec, because I feel the user agent directly providing to all users a user-level feature based on an ARIA attribute is a radical departure from the rest of the ARIA spec. Resolutions I would be happy with include: * Change the language so that aria-describedat is mapped to native accessibility APIs only, like the rest of ARIA * Or, make it part of HTML5 and take ARIA out of the name
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