Re: use of aria-hidden to provide a text description not visible on the page. from James Craig on 2010-10-12 (wai-xtech@w3.org from October 2010)

From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:18:42 -0700
To: David Bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Snow-Weaver <andisnow@us.ibm.com>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Message-Id: <EED1B40E-31F8-4817-B019-F1D77C43540B@apple.com>

On Oct 12, 2010, at 12:19 PM, David Bolter wrote:

> We have role="presentation".

That's different than aria-hidden. Presentation still exposes text contents.

Received on Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:19:17 UTC