Re: Call for Consensus (CFC) to move forward the HTML5 Image Description Extension spec for publication (FPWD) from Joshue O Connor on 2012-11-28 (public-html-a11y@w3.org from November 2012)

From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:14:48 +0000
To: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
CC: Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Message-ID: <50B5D608.1080203@cfit.ie>

James Craig wrote:
>> Yes, but you lose the association. For a back-end services provider like Yandex, that's a loss that's hard to make up algorithmically.
>
> Perhaps that could be solved with a WCAG Technique to include the link reference in a figure caption?

If you are interested in drafting one please do! Then send it to me!

Cheers

Josh

Ps. Same goes for you Chaals (if you have interesting ideas on how to 
future proof implementations for long descriptor use cases)

Received on Wednesday, 28 November 2012 09:15:18 UTC