- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:10:03 +0200
- To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: Chaals McCathieNevile <w3b@chaals.com>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, public-html@w3.org, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Steve Faulkner, Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:49:39 +0100: > hi leif > >> where the AT would - when presenting the link as a long description >> link - ignore the textual content of the anchor and only present its >> URL to the user as a long description link. That is what Firefox does >> now, already. > > not entirely correct > > firefox exposes the text content of the link as the images accessible > description (not accessible name) this description may not be > announced by some AT on images. Thanks for that. So the text of the 'longdesc linked' link is not lost - it is just treated as part of the image. An important correction of what I said, I agree.[1] However, it then seems to me that I was correct in saying that the link gets presented as a longdesc link. That is: without its normal link text - and instead with a generic longdesc announcement. (I heard that announcement when testing with JAWS.) [1] In addition it gets read twice, I suppose, when AT continues with the element after the <img> element. -- leif halvard silli
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