- From: Matthew Turvey <mcturvey@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:25:48 +0100
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Cc: Geoff Freed <geoff_freed@wgbh.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On 3 April 2012 14:50, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com> wrote: > Possibly, but it is clear that despite poor implementation, the fact that > a real proportion of the audience who *needs* this stuff don't really > understand how it works, and that it is expensive, thoughtful publishers > with years of experience in making stuff accessible for real world use > cases have decided that the expense of using longdesc is justified. I think that's probably because WAI have been giving out misleading UA/AT support information for longdesc in WCAG H45: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H45.html This is being fixed, so hopefully publishers will make their long descriptions accessible to everyone, including all SR users, in future: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2012Feb/0015.html -Matt
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