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Re: ISSUE-30 (Longdesc) Change Proposal

From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:15:44 +0000
Message-ID: <4AEB1130.8060901@cfit.ie>
To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
CC: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, public-html@w3.org 
Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> HTML 5 should say that @longdesc can be used to link to a single resource or element that is meant 
> as a *direct* long description = fallback, of the IMG in question.

This is fine with me. In particular because of the current inability of
@aria-describedby to point to a URI.

Cheers

Josh
Received on Friday, 30 October 2009 16:16:23 GMT

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