- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:19:45 +0200
- To: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
- Cc: alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>, wai-xtech <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Hi Joseph, Joseph Scheuhammer, Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:59:19 -0400: >> is it possible to test Firefox' longdesc implementation somewhere, >> somehow? I mean, not via some a11y inspector but in a 'real' way? [ snip ] > To satisfy my own curiosity, I used the Linux a11y inspector, > Accerciser. For an <img> with a @longdesc, Accerciser shows a > "showLongDesc" action and provides a "Perform Action" button. > Clicking that button causes FF to open the page referenced by the url > in a new tab. That implies that *if* an AT invoked this a11y action, > the result would be the same. Cool! But as you know, there are some longdesc plug-ins for Firefox. I wonder if a plug-in could be made that did the same thing that you did in that experiment. > I also looked into what Orca does in this case, including a brief > discussion with some of the developers. Orca ignores the action, or > perhaps more accurately, didn't even know it was available. Good to hear they know are aware ... -- Leif H Silli
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