- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:04:33 +0000
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- CC: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, public-html@w3.org
Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > Leif Halvard Silli On 09-10-30 13.30: > >> Joshue O Connor On 09-10-30 12.24: > > [...] > >> The purpose of ARIA seems to me to be to let the UA "compute" the A11Y >> layer on behalf of the author and the user. Whereas @longdesc as well >> as "normal fallback" (such as @alt content and the fallback of >> <object>) are "real" fallback that relies on regular hyper text. > > > Therefore it seems more logical to me to include @longdesc into ARIA > than to introduce aria-link. > > Introducing longdesc into ARIA *and* make longdesc do - in ARIA - > whatever you envision that ARIA-link could do, would a) increase the > take up of longdesc, and b) be backward compatible and un-confusing. I don't really follow. As already @aria-describedby is a long descriptor, hampered only by its inability to ref a URI. Cheers Josh
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