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Support descriptions of HTML/XML objects #392

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nvaccessAuto opened this issue Jan 1, 2010 · 4 comments
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Support descriptions of HTML/XML objects #392

nvaccessAuto opened this issue Jan 1, 2010 · 4 comments

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Reported by benjaminhawkeslewis on 2009-08-18 06:41
Support advisement of, presentation of, and interaction with long descriptions of HTML/XML elements on content focus, including:

  1. Same-page descriptions referenced with "aria-describedby" on the "table" element. Treat similarly to "summary", perhaps.
  2. Same-page descriptions referenced with "aria-describedby" (all other elements, but especially "img", controls, fields).
  3. Same-page descriptions referenced with "longdesc" ("img", "frame", "iframe" elements).
  4. Other-page descriptions referenced with "longdesc" ("img", "iframe", "iframe" elements).
  5. Perhaps legacy "D" links ("img" elements)?
  6. Perhaps SVG descriptions: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/struct.html#DescriptionAndTitleElements ?

I've left out other-page descriptions referenced with "aria-describedby", since it's unclear whether those are going to be allowed or not. They'd work by treating:

Sales Chart

Sales Trend

as roughly equivalent to:

Sales Chart

I call out "interaction with" because descriptions can be more than text - they can contain links, controls, data tables, and so on.

It may be simple text descriptions would benefit from different behavior than complex descriptions.

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Comment 1 by benjaminhawkeslewis on 2009-08-18 07:33
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Changed title from "Support advisement of and navigation to descriptions of (X)HTML objects" to "Support descriptions of (X)HTML objects"

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Comment 2 by benjaminhawkeslewis on 2009-08-18 07:36
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Changed title from "Support descriptions of (X)HTML objects" to "Support descriptions of HTML/XML objects"

@LeonarddeR
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We do have the support to report long descriptions now.

@benjaminhawkeslewis: Assuming you opened this ticket years ago, could you elaborate on what you'd like to see in NVDA exactly?

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jcsteh commented Jun 8, 2017

As noted above, you can access long descriptions with NVDA+d. Also, you can access descriptions such as aria-describedby by using NVDA+tab (if the object in question has focus) or NVDA+numpad5 (laptop: NVDA+shift+o) if it isn't focusable but is beneath the browse mode cursor.

@jcsteh jcsteh closed this as completed Jun 8, 2017
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