Re: Working Group Decision on ISSUE-30 longdesc

Hi everyone,

On 2010-08-13, at 3:46 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote:

>> * How many and which assistive technologies are using longdesc (full browser, OS level, plugin, etc.)?
> 
> That is a much better question, but will leave it to an AT expert to answer.

As it stands, Jaws and Window-Eyes are using and fully support @longdesc by announcing to the user that the image suggests a long description and the user can activate the corresponding link to get to the page where that description is provided.

NVDA doesn't (yet) and I haven't seen anything relating to @longdesc support in their roadmap, but it doesn't mean it will not get implemented eventually. This is not a complicated feature to add in.

As it turns out, Jaws and NVDA constitute the vast majority of screen readers used out there, so both supporting should be satisfying enough.

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Received on Friday, 13 August 2010 14:38:01 UTC