Re: Clarification of rational for deprecation of @longdesc and @summary

On Feb 18, 2008 12:24 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
>
>
> If wai-aria goes in we have an aria-describedby property which can reference
> an area of the document allowing for the prose to be associated with the
> image. longdesc is almost never used as people want to use the same prose in
> the original document.


Something like the following?

<table longdesc="#my_longdesc">
...
</table>
...
<div id="my_longdesc">
<p>...

If authors don't do that, I think it means that:
 * either they don't know they can
 * or they just don't want

If it's the former case, it might be a problem of misinformation
and/or editors not allowing them to do it.
If it's the latter case, aria-describedby won't help.

-- 
Thomas Broyer