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Re: arai-describedby and aria-hidden

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Feb 5, 2015 3:07PM

burker i think the fire sinaryo is perfict and moss is my faverit caractor

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Well said folks, I agree that this is certainly doable, but not
> necessarily a bet practice.
> For this particular example it would be ok, but what if the hint said,
> say "in case you are unable to log on, call our customer service at 1
> 800 444 5969, ext. 19827 098 9663888 799 0) (.. for those who have
> seen the I.T. Crowd, you probably get the reference).
> In other words, if the hint text contains something that the user
> needs to memorize or explore, they need to be able to traverse the
> hint character by character, copy and paste etc.
> Still, I like the thought behind what you did, it is a creative use of
> the fact that aria-describedby overrides hidden settings.
> You never know when ideas come in handy, so thanks for posting this one.
> -B
> P.s. Jaws will not read targets of aria-describedby when the verbosity
> setting is set to "intermediate" or "advanced", so Jaws users would be
> completely unable to see this text in any mode, if they have their
> verbosity set that way.
>
>
> On 2/4/15, Ricardo Sánchez < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > Susie, Jared, Don, Léonie,
> >
> > Thank you very much for your contributions. Clearly it is not good
> > practice.
> >
> > Best regards.
> > Ricardo Sanchez
> >
> >
> > > > > > > >
>
>
> --
> Work hard. Have fun. Make history.
> > > >



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