[Bug 10455] Mint a describedby attribute for the img element

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10455





--- Comment #41 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>  2010-08-30 22:59:45 ---
(In reply to comment #34)
> >   <a href="URL" rel="longdesc"><img src="*" alt="*"/></a>
> 
> What does one do if the image itself is already wrapped in an anchor?

The underlying premise of that question is that the justification of @longdesc
has to do with _technology_. That @longdesc provides a workaround for technical
challenge.

But, no. Reading what Laura said [1], one has to come to the conclusion that it
is about semantics - @longdesc is supposed to link to a description of some
particular quality.
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Aug/0190

However, in practise, @longdesc does _not_ provide a workaround: when taking in
the corrections that I pointed out in Comment #28, then most of the @longdesc
examples in the wild that Laura has documented, duplicate the @longdesc URL in
anordinary anchor link. A link without any link type information whatsoever.

Also, if we concentrate on @rel="longdesc" and use of image maps, then we can
in fact smash the longdesc usecase together with the image map issue - which
also needs to be solved better in HTML5.

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