- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:55:41 -0400
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, "Ted O'Connor" <eoconnor@apple.com>
As requested in the 20 September HTML-WG teleconference: http://www.w3.org/2012/09/20-html-wg-minutes.html I have now captured the topic of this thread in bug 18952: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18952 Janina Laura Carlson writes: > Hi Maciej, > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > > > > On Sep 18, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi Janina, > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote: > >> > >>> The intention of the language we're looking for is to allow software to > >>> identify which hidden conten can be revealed to users at their request, > >>> and which content cannot. If the id and href approach is insufficient > >>> for that, then we would need a different approach. But, the approach > >>> must be one that software can reliably use to distinguish between the > >>> two use cases of hidden content. > >> > >> Here is an idea: add a discoverable attribute. @discoverable or @nothiddenfromAT > > > > Would it mean something different than aria-hidden=false? > > It could natively mean: this is element is hidden but discoverable. So > browsers would make it discoverable to users who wanted access to it. > > Best Regards, > Laura > > -- > Laura L. Carlson -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net The Linux Foundation Chair, Open Accessibility: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
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