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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:
Same-page descriptions referenced with "aria-describedby" on the "table" element. Treat similarly to "summary", perhaps.
Same-page descriptions referenced with "aria-describedby" (all other elements, but especially "img", controls, fields).
Same-page descriptions referenced with "longdesc" ("img", "frame", "iframe" elements).
Other-page descriptions referenced with "longdesc" ("img", "iframe", "iframe" elements).
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:
Comment 1 by benjaminhawkeslewis on 2009-08-18 07:33
Changes:
Changed title from "Support advisement of and navigation to descriptions of (X)HTML objects" to "Support descriptions of (X)HTML objects"
Comment 2 by benjaminhawkeslewis on 2009-08-18 07:36
Changes:
Changed title from "Support descriptions of (X)HTML objects" to "Support descriptions of HTML/XML objects"
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.
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:
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 Trend
as roughly equivalent to:
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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