Re: aria-describedat?

david bolter <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:02:05 -0400

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I didn't follow it either. Anyone?

D

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Alexander Surkov <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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