Re: aria-describedat?

Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:44:02 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.accessibility
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Joseph Scheuhammer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12-03-13 3:35 PM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>>
>> It *is* pretty much the same thing
>
> Nit and possible benefit:  @aria-describedbyat can be used with any element.
>  @longdesc is restricted to <img> only.
>
> Or, possible implementation headache :-)

Spec writers are as free to allow @longdesc on other elements as they
are to mint new attributes and allow them on other elements.

For example, one idea under discussion at HTML WG would allow
@longdesc to link to transcriptions for <video> elements.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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