Re: 48-Hour Consensus Call: InstateLongdesc CP Update

Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Joshue O Connor<joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>  wrote:
>> Joshue O Connor wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>>>> "We should not define the user experience".
>>
>> Actually, that should be the UI (User Interface/User Interaction) but it
>> does still inform the UX.
>
> Why do you keep repeating Ian's opinion?

?

>Do you agree with it?

I think you misread me tbh.

> If we agree to give @longdesc another lease of life (and I am not
> saying that I have made up my mind on whether we should), I would
> suggested to provide informative text that helps a UA come up with a
> UI. That's not "defining the UI",[...]

One informs the other.

> I think we have several such suggestions mentioned even in this thread
> already. It would be valuable to make a list of them and discuss their
> pros and cons and maybe come up with one or two that we would like to
> list as implementation examples.

+1

> Note that we need to be careful to
> pick something that also works on devices that have no mouse.

I would suggest that by and large the a11y community is aware of that.

Cheers

Josh

Received on Tuesday, 18 September 2012 07:56:12 UTC