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Re: aria-describedat In or Not In

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From: pratik roy
Date: Mar 19, 2018 6:54PM

Thanks for letting me know about aria-details. Hope to see better support
in near future.

Thanks & Regards
PRATIK ROY

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> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 10:52:28 -0400
> Subject: [WebAIM] aria-describedat In or Not In
> 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
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> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:23:01 +0000
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] aria-describedat In or Not In
> Hi Patrik, aria-describedat was made obsolete by aria-details before ARIA
> 1.1 became a recommendation
>
> Aria-details does have some support limitations that I have documented.
> https://labs.levelaccess.com/index.php/ARIA_details_property
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> -----Original Message-----
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> 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
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> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 11:24:06 -0400
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] aria-describedat In or Not In
> 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
>
>
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> > 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
> > > > > > > > >
>
>
>
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> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 11:27:05 -0400
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] aria-describedat In or Not In
> Whoops, I read the attribute wrong. I guess it is good it got obsoleted
> without adjustments to Speech dictionaries the two attributes sound the
> same at high speed rates.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jonathan Cohn
>
>
>
> > On Mar 17, 2018, at 11:23 AM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Patrik, aria-describedat was made obsolete by aria-details before
> ARIA 1.1 became a recommendation
> >
> > Aria-details does have some support limitations that I have documented.
> > https://labs.levelaccess.com/index.php/ARIA_details_property
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> pratik roy
> > Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2018 10:52 AM
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> > Subject: [WebAIM] aria-describedat In or Not In
> >
> > 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
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