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Andrew Kirkpatrick asks in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2013Aug/0069.html if there is anything in the spec that requires that user agents read only the content contained within the HTML object with the matching id reference.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23293 ***