Re: FYI: proposed ARIA feature: synonyms

FYI: "aria-" is used as a pseudo namespace. They don't use "-" in any of
their names. That is consistent with the rest of HTML (5) attribute names
such as "contextmenu", "readonly", "tabindex", etc. It's true for (most?
all?) MathML (e.g., "maxsize", "rowspacing"). That's just convention
because it is legal to use "-".

FYI 2: Although the issue I pointed to is old, if you look at the end of
the issue, you'll see a link to a PR and that has recently had a bunch of
discussion. That's what brought it to my attention.

    Neil


On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 4:12 PM Deyan Ginev <deyan.ginev@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Neil,
>
> Thank you for bringing the aria-labelsynonyms attribute to our attention,
> it was the first time I learned of its proposal.
>
> Two notes come to mind:
> 1.  my "alias" suggestion had the additional benefit of it being a
> one-time global annotation (in the Open and possibly Core lists), rather
> than being locally generated on every <math> element that may need it.
> 2. I don't really understand the aesthetics of half-dashed naming schemes.
> "aria-label-synonyms" feels much cleaner/legible than "aria-labelsynonyms".
>     I assume that is some internal consistency ARIA is maintaining,
> considering e.g. "aria-brailleroledescription" suffers the same legibility
> deficit.
>
> For readers not familiar with the "alias" discussion, the issue is at
> https://github.com/w3c/mathml-docs/issues/40
>
> Greetings,
> Deyan
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 6:50 PM Neil Soiffer <soiffer@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> The ARIA WG is considering adding aria-labelsynonyms
>> <https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/1038>. I won't pretend to understand
>> the subtleties. The gist is that for speech-to-text (not text-to-speech),
>> adding synonyms makes it more likely that something will be found. There is
>> a little bit of an analogy with Deyan's goal of adding aliases for intent
>> names. Perhaps others will not feel there is much analogy or maybe someone
>> will find a strong similarity. Given the potential similarities, I felt
>> people should be aware of it.
>>
>>     Neil
>>
>>
>>