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* Update aria-details:
1) Support multiple elements.
2) Support types of information/annotations that are not descriptions.
Co-Authored-By: James Nurthen <jnurthen@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Matt King <a11yThinker@Gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Carolyn MacLeod <Carolyn_MacLeod@ca.ibm.com>
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<div class="property" id="aria-details">
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<pdef>aria-details</pdef>
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<div class="property-description">
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<p>Identifies the <a>element</a> that provides a detailed, extended description for the <a>object</a>. See related <pref>aria-describedby</pref>.</p>
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<p>The <code>aria-details</code> attribute references a single element that provides more detailed information than would normally be provided by <pref>aria-describedby</pref>. It enables <a>assistive technologies</a> to make users aware of the availability of an extended description as well as navigate to it. Authors SHOULD ensure the element referenced by <code>aria-details</code> is visible to all users.</p>
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<p>Unlike elements referenced by <code>aria-describedby</code>, the element referenced by <code>aria-details</code> is not used in either the Accessible <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/accname-aam-1.1/#mapping_additional_nd_name">Name Computation</a> or the Accessible <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/accname-aam-1.1/#mapping_additional_nd_description">Description Computation</a> as defined in the Accessible Name and Description specification [[ACCNAME-1.1]]. Thus, the content of an element referenced by <code>aria-details</code> is not flattened to a string when presented to assistive technology users. This makes <code>aria-details</code> particularly useful when converting the information to a string would cause a loss of information or make the extended description more difficult to understand.</p>
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<p>In some user agents, multiple reference relationships for descriptive information are not supported by the accessibility API. In such cases, if both <pref>aria-describedby</pref> and <code>aria-details</code> are provided on an element, <code>aria-details</code> takes precedence.</p>
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<p>Identifies the <a>element</a> (or elements) that provide additional information related to the <a>object</a>. See related <pref>aria-describedby</pref>.</p>
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<p>The <code>aria-details</code> property is for referencing elements that provide more detailed information than would normally be provided via <pref>aria-describedby</pref>. The presence of <code>aria-details</code> enables <a>assistive technologies</a> to make users aware of the availability of extended information and navigate to it. Authors SHOULD ensure that elements referenced by <code>aria-details</code> are visible to all users.</p>
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<p>Assistive technologies MAY use the role of elements referenced by the <code>aria-details</code> property to help users understand the types of information associated with the element. Authors MAY convey the type of details associated with an element as follows:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Comment: <code>aria-details</code> refers to an element with role <rref>comment</rref>.</li>
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<li>Definition: <code>aria-details</code> is applied to an element with role <rref>term</rref> and refers to an element with role <rref>definition</rref>.</li>
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<li>Footnote: <code>aria-details</code> refers to an element with role <code>doc-footnote</code>. This role is defined in [[DPUB-ARIA-1.0]].</li>
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<li>Endnote: <code>aria-details</code> refers to an element with role <code>doc-endnote</code>. This role is defined in [[DPUB-ARIA-1.0]].</li>
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<li>Description or general annotation: <code>aria-details</code> refers to an element with any other role.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Unlike elements referenced by <code>aria-describedby</code>, elements referenced by <code>aria-details</code> are not used in the Accessible <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/accname-aam-1.1/#mapping_additional_nd_description">Description Computation</a> as defined in the Accessible Name and Description specification [[ACCNAME-1.1]]. Thus, the content of elements referenced by <code>aria-details</code> are not flattened to a string when presented to assistive technology users. This makes <code>aria-details</code> particularly useful when converting the information to a string would cause a loss of information or make the extended information more difficult to understand.</p>
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<p>The <code>aria-details</code> property supports referring to multiple elements. For example, a paragraph in a document editor may reference multiple comments that are not related to each other. If a user agent relies on an accessibility API that does not support exposing multiple descriptive relations, the user agent SHOULD expose the relationship to the first element referenced by <code>aria-details</code>.</p>
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<p>It is valid for an element to have both <code>aria-details</code> and a description specified with either <code>aria-describedby</code> or <code>aria-description</code>. If a user agent relies on an accessibility API that does not support exposing multiple descriptive relations, and if an element has both <code>aria-details</code> and <rref>aria-describedby</rref>, the user agent SHOULD expose the <code>aria-details</code> relation and the description string computed from the <rref>aria-describedby</rref> relationship.</p>
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<p>A common use for <code>aria-details</code> is in digital publishing where an extended description needs to be conveyed in a book that requires structural markup or the embedding of other technology to provide illustrative content. The following example demonstrates this scenario.</p>
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<!-- Provision of an extended description -->
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