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          <bug_id>27798</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2015-01-11 23:00:29 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>Clarify that an assistive technology must use the author-provided &apos;aria-describedby&apos; on an alertdialog</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2018-05-03 21:10:37 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>ARIA</product>
          <component>Spec</component>
          <version>1.1</version>
          <rep_platform>All</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>All</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>WONTFIX</resolution>
          
          
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          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Daniel Trebbien">dtrebbien</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="James Craig">jcraig</assigned_to>
          <cc>dtrebbien</cc>
    
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    <commentid>117004</commentid>
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    <who name="Daniel Trebbien">dtrebbien</who>
    <bug_when>2015-01-11 23:00:29 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#alertdialog states:

&gt; Authors should use aria-describedby on an alertdialog to reference the alert
&gt; message element in the dialog. If they do not, an assistive technology can
&gt; resort to its internal recovery mechanism to determine the contents of the
&gt; alert message.

I think that this needs to be clarified so that if the author specifies &apos;aria-describedby&apos; on an alertdialog, then an assistive technology MUST use the author-provided description instead of resorting to its internal recovery mechanism.

I am seeing, for example, that JAWS 15.0 is resorting to its internal recovery mechanism in Internet Explorer instead of using the &apos;aria-describedby&apos; description.</thetext>
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    <commentid>117019</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
      <attachid>1562</attachid>
    <who name="Daniel Trebbien">dtrebbien</who>
    <bug_when>2015-01-12 13:59:57 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Created attachment 1562
Test case

This demonstrates the issue.  In JAWS 15.0 / IE8, 9, or 10, when the &quot;Show Dialog&quot; button is activated, JAWS announces &quot;This should be hidden&quot;.</thetext>
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    <commentid>117020</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
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    <who name="Daniel Trebbien">dtrebbien</who>
    <bug_when>2015-01-12 14:26:15 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Created attachment 1563
Test case

Sorry, I uploaded the wrong version.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>129187</commentid>
    <comment_count>3</comment_count>
    <who name="James Nurthen">w3cbugzilla</who>
    <bug_when>2018-05-03 21:10:37 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>We cannot specify AT MUST rules.</thetext>
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