[Bug 10455] Mint a describedby attribute for the img element

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10455





--- Comment #39 from Matt May <mattmay@adobe.com>  2010-08-30 22:16:31 ---
(In reply to comment #37)
> (1) The example above represent millions of images. Is it smart to let a
> substantially less common usecase stand in the way of the most common usecase?

When the less common use case represents a fundamental feature of hypertext?
Yeah, kinda.

I think all of the proposals presented so far are complicating the creation of
long descriptions to the point that just reverting to visible D-links will be
the standard case. I doubt that any assistive technology will implement support
for markup so complex that it's likely to be broken in many cases.

> I want to point out that for the code example above, the only link text
> is the @alt text. Thus the alt text has to serve a double cause: as link
> text and as @alt text.

That's the common case for alt text today. I don't know what problem this
solves. If there's alternate content that's not expressed in @alt, I believe it
should still be bound within the element, not in an <a> wrapper. Anchors are an
already well-defined semantic, and I don't like the idea of telling authors
that you can either link an image or provide a long description simply in the
name of expediency.

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