Re: aria-describedat?

Alexander Surkov <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:27:52 -0400

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longdesc is exposed as accessible action. If aria-describedat is
supposed to replace longdesc then we should expose it the same way. I
didn't follow the discussion about aria-describedat vs longdesc so
what's the result of it?
Alex.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:15 AM, david bolter <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was just told a new attribute is being proposed called "aria-describedat"
> which expects a URL value. We could expose this via IA2/ATK object
> attributes. Feedback wanted. Note this might eventually put the longdesc
> debate to rest.
>
> Cheers,
> David
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