Re: aria-describedat?

Yeah, iirc, we had a patch to make aria-describedby acting as longdesc
but never landed it. So if ARIA is going to have aria-describedat for
that then we could pick it up.

Currently longdesc action opens a new window with the longdesc URI.

Alex.


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Joseph Scheuhammer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12-03-13 11:27 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
>>
>> longdesc is exposed as accessible action.
>
>
> Good to know.
>
> Part of the inspiration for aria-describedat was a claim that
> aria-describedby could be used instead of @longdesc.  The ARIA working group
> disagrees with that assessment:  aria-describedby is for descriptions that
> are on the same page as the accessible they are describing, and is exposed
> as the accessible description property in the a11y API.
>
> I've wondered that if aria-describedby == accDescription, then what does
> longdesc correspond to?  Exposing it as an accessible action makes sense,
> since the user experience is to go to another page for the description.  It
> acts like a link (sort of).
>
> Is that what "exposed as an accessible action" means, Alex?
>
> Thanks.
>
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