Hi, Janina. I don't have clear use case of the universal longdesc in my mind so I'm not sure where the feature should be. If it's supposed to be used on HTML elements then HTML spec should be a right place to host it. In general I just don't support the idea to let ARIA to have UI dressing since it's all about semantics and I wouldn't want to change that. Thanks. Alex. On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote: > Do I understand that you correctly? > > If our intent is a general feature for the whole world, than you say > "Put it in HTML?" > > If our intent is a feature for accessibility, would you say "ARIA is > OK?" > > Is this correct? Is this your view? > > Just walking througha clarification here ... > > Janina > > Alexander Surkov writes: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net > Email: janina@rednote.net > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf > Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/ > >
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