- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 10:13:08 +0100
- To: "Lachlan Hunt" <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>, public-html@w3.org, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Lachlan wrote: > That seems like nothing more than speculation about the usability of long > description links. It's certainly not an argument against doing the study, > since whether or not it really is an issue for users, would be revealed by > the study itself. As i understand it david is one of the 'users' you talk about, so his views are useful, and there are at least a few other potential consumers of longdesc in the HTML WG, listening to them may be a good place to start on such things. -- stevef 2008/9/6 Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>: > > David Poehlman wrote: >> >> I see one problem with this that has already been mentioned. That is since >> it is not widely encountered on the web, many will not know what a long >> description is. >> >> If I see a text link, it would have to be well labeled for me to know that >> it is a descriptive link. if I see a longdesc associated with a link, I >> don't have to make a leap. > > That seems like nothing more than speculation about the usability of long > description links. It's certainly not an argument against doing the study, > since whether or not it really is an issue for users, would be revealed by > the study itself. > > -- > Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software > http://lachy.id.au/ > http://www.opera.com/ > > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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