- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:32:07 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Hi Ian, >> Ian, I would really appreciate your advice on that spec text too. What >> is technically wrong with it? > > Well, it reintroduces longdesc, a feature which is almost universally > misused The idea would be to improve longdesc to make it more useful. > and will therefore do basically nothing but cause users pain, > something which has been repeatedly explained. That's the main problem > with it. On February 28, 2011 WebAIM released the results of their latest independent user survey which asked a question regarding the longdesc attribute. The majority of respondents declared longdesc useful. The report states: "These responses show a strong usefulness of the longdesc attribute, which is currently under debate for omission from HTML5. Also of note is that 22.7% of respondents do not know the usefulness of longdesc, suggesting a need for better education or presentation of this functionality in screen readers." http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey3/#longdesc > I didn't examine it any closer since that's pretty much a fatal > problem with the text as it is. How could it not be a fatal problem? Your signature tag line says that "things that are impossible just take longer." There must be a way to improve longdesc. Will you think about it? Thanks. Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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