[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 95208] AX: aria-help is supported but undocumented

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95208





--- Comment #1 from chris fleizach <cfleizach at apple.com>  2012-08-28 10:08:28 PST ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> It looks like WebKit supports an undocumented ARIA attribute "aria-help" - was it perhaps part of an earlier draft of the standard? I don't see it in the latest version.
> 
> Should we get rid of it? Or propose it for ARIA 2.0? Is there a wiki somewhere we could make notes on how WebKit implements various accessibility standards, especially where it deviates from the spec or has to interpret the spec in some way?
> 
> String AccessibilityRenderObject::helpText() const
> {
>     ...
> 
>     const AtomicString& ariaHelp = getAttribute(aria_helpAttr);
>     if (!ariaHelp.isEmpty())
>         return ariaHelp;
> 
>    ...

It has been proposed to be a part of aria 2.0. Ideally we probably should have named it -webkit-aria-help, but the cat is out of the bag so to speak

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