- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:08:18 +0100
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- CC: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>, public-html@w3.org, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, www-style@w3.org
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > The longdesc attribute is not included for the img element. It has been > clearly demonstrated in past discussions that it is a complete failure > in practice It's not clear to everyone. :) I still think the evidence tells you infinitely more about the dire effects of bad implementations on authoring habits than the merits of programmatically determinable associations (such as rapid non-linear navigation and easy content extraction). > and pursuing it as a solution for video is, IMO, a waste of > time. Plus, I have already explained why any sort of long description, > whether it be a transcript, full text alternative, or whatever else, is > useful to more people than just those with accessibility needs. This is entirely true, but if anything it merely reinforces the benefits of a programmatically determinable association between a video and its transcript. > Any links to a long description should be done using ordinary, visible links > from within the surrounding content. Nothing stops longdesc (or a similar mechanism) and a visible link pointing at the same location. But only an explicit mechanism can provide a programmatically determinable association. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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