It looks like I should comment too. I think that if aria-describedat is a nice feature for any element and all users can benefit of it then it should be part of HTML5 spec. Thanks. Alex. On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com> wrote: > 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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