- From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:43:53 -0400
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- CC: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>, alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>, wai-xtech <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On 12-04-20 12:19 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> ...
>> 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 ...
Part of the problem is that browsers do not expose @longdesc in a11y
APIs in the same way. It's not interoperable, or so I've heard. It's
not surprising, then, that ATs don't necessarily invest in it.
--
;;;;joseph.
'A: After all, it isn't rocket science.'
'K: Right. It's merely computer science.'
- J. D. Klaun -
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