Re: Drop longdesc, get aria-describedat?

John Foliot, Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:53:27 -0400:

> Frankly, this entire thread has been nothing more than a 
> time-sink rehashing the same old same-old, allowing those who want to 
> dump @longdesc the opportunity (once again) to suggest "...those a11y 
> folks don't even know what they want" - which is pretty far from the 
> real truth, but continued hand-wringing and teeth gnashing over this 
> is truly not helping anything. Let @longdesc be retained in HTML5 and 
> then we can look to improve upon it in a measured and reasonable 
> time-frame.

I continue to see the fact that we don't have 'the ARIA feature' as a 
one of the most credible reasons to retain 'the HTML feature'. 
Especially now that we know that PF wants to implement 'an ARIA 
feature'. But @longdesc's retainment would be even more credible, if 
ARIA formally already did EITHER incorporate 'the HTML feature', like 
it does with @alt, OR - in addition - had invented 'the ARIA feature'. 
Clearly Charles expressed impatience with PF. And I support you and him 
on that.

Btw, has anyone filed a Chromium or Vox bug? Here is the Webkit bug: 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10448
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Leif H Silli

Received on Monday, 12 March 2012 20:20:04 UTC