- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:31:07 +0200
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
David Singer, Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:22:41 -0700: > On Aug 12, 2010, at 10:10 , Sam Ruby wrote: >> >> In the short term, a better use of those energies would be towards >> identifying new information (I hear that there is some from Oracle?) >> or on a Formal Objection. >> > > I have to wonder whether our energies would not be better spent, not > in attempting to maintain the historical status of longdesc, but in > providing mechanisms that actually materially improve accessibility > for those that need it (given that we all seem to recognize that > longdesc has almost no useful adoption and use)? > > But maybe this is just me as an engineer thinking :-( As soon as HTML5 conformance checkers start to conformance check the longdesc attribute, it isn't historical anymore. -- leif halvard silli
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