- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:50:00 -0400
- To: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Cc: "'Ian Hickson'" <ian@hixie.ch>, "'HTML Accessibility Task Force'" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
John Foliot writes: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > > > Why would we want to drop it in a future version but not this version? > > It would be helpful to make clear the criteria under which we would > > consider longdesc="" suitable for removal. > > If/when aria-described by supports URLs as well as IDREFs then the > criteria for deprecating @longdesc would be met. There is discussion that > this might happen in ARIA 2.0, but given that ARIA 1.0 is now closed to > further comments (Deadline was Feb. 2, 2010) we will likely not see this > in ARIA 1.0. This is covered in the Draft Resolution, but omitted in your > response: > > RESOLUTION: We do not want to change aria-describedby to support > descriptions in a separate page in the ARIA 1.0 time frame. > > RESOLUTION: aria-describedby should be enhanced in the ARIA 2.0 time > frame to support external descriptions (out of page). > And, an ARIA 2.0 issue was created on this very point during the Birmingham Face to Face ... ISSUE-411 (aria-describedby for longdesc): Expand aria-describedby to support longdesc functionality [ARIA 2.0] http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/411 Raised by: Richard Schwerdtfeger On product: ARIA 2.0 Expand aria-describedby to support a URL as well as a local id. This was raised to be able to replace longdesc in HTML. On the +April 10, 2010 Face to Face meetings in Birmingham. Janina > > JF > -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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