- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:18:13 +0100
- To: "WAI Interest Group list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi, At 23:15 8/03/2007, Christopher Hoffman wrote: >On 3/7/07, Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> wrote: > >>I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned in this list: on 1 September >>2006, the Dutch minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations >>published a "ministerial decision" on the quality of the national >>government's websites. >>A few hightlights: >> >>7.3: don't use d-links. >>8.21: serve files with the appropriate MIME type. >>[People have argued that this rules out XHTML 1.0 because it's MIME >>type is not supported by a dominant browser.] > >Neither is the longdesc attribute, which is the proposed alternative >to using d-links. I don't think you can compare lacking support for "application/xhtml+xml" with lacking support for the longdesc attribute. Browsers don't open a "Save as..." dialogue when there is an attribute they don't support, and screen readers have started to support the longdesc attribute (JAWS, IBM Home Page Reader, Window-Eyes, and maybe others). Best regards, Christophe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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