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Re: aria-describedat In or Not In

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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Mar 17, 2018 9:24AM

To the best of my knowledge described by is used as the "Help" information in Safari browsers with VoiceOver running, and NVDA / JAWS will read it in all browsers after the name type state information.

In verbose mode on JAWS, there is also a help tag that says hit some key sequence to hear a description. I have not always encountered this help text but I have on at least one occasion.

Have you encountered a situation where it did not work?

Thanks,

Jonathan Cohn



> On Mar 17, 2018, at 10:52 AM, pratik roy < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> aria-describeat can be a very useful contribution to ARIA family as it is
> meant to be the replacement for longdesc in HTML 5. But it is quite some
> time now and no User Agent is supporting (plz let me know if there is any)
> this attribute. Please share if anyone has any idea about when we can start
> using this without worrying about compatibility.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> PRATIK ROY
> > > >