- From: Patrick Lauke <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 17:09:49 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> David Balch > Yeah, I need to check up on browser support of longdesc... If by support you mean "exposed in an easy and reasonable way to the end user", then the situation is rather bleak. Out of the main Win browsers, only Firefox/Mozilla barely support it by showing the link to longdesc in the image properties dialog (convoluted to get to, and even then the link is not even clickable). Not sure about the situation on the Mac...anybody care to fill in the gaps? I wonder why it seems so hard for browsers to natively implementat something like my firefox longdesc extension http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/55/ which just adds the option to follow the longdesc link in the context menu... Having said that, some assistive technology running on top of the browser offers access to longdesc, so at least it's exposed via the API and/or DOM. But until browsers present longdescs in a user friendly way, you'll probably still have to revert to using the dreaded [d] links (or use CSS3's content generation or javascript to create those links client side, which obviously opens up a whole different can of worms with regards to backwards compatibility and equivalent functionality when scripting is disabled/unavailable) Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk
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