- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:45:20 +0200
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Laura Carlson, Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:57:35 -0500: > [1] http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/research/ld.html#tools > [2] http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/research/ld.html > [3] http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/research/ld.html#wild Laura, here are some info which I believe you haven't listed in your research page: 1) AD Gallery [*] - a JQuery based image gallery with longdesc support (*] http://coffeescripter.com/code/ad-gallery/ 2) Weblight [*] - a link checker, which also checks @longdesc URIs [*] http://www.illumit.com/weblight/ 3) Jaws+Firefox is listed, but doesn't its @longdesc support rely on Firefox's longdesc DOM support? If so, then it can't be argued that a removal of @longdesc will not impact AT. 4) Numerous tools support @longdesc via syntax based auto-completion and similar ways (from WYSIWG Amaya to text editors with HTML support - like the popular mac editor TextMate.app). 5) Thierry Koblentz's easyAlbum [*]. [*] http://tjkdesign.com/articles/gallery/photo_gallery.asp Quote: 'What appears in the "slideshow" is nothing other than the value of these 3 attributes: alt; title; longdesc" Check the second and tenth image in the demo on that page - the longdesc is made available to to any UA which support javascript, and is otherwise available to any UA with longdesc support. (The site says that a plug-in for Dreamweaver were in development.) 6) Gallery [*], is a popular open source online image gallery solution, did support @longdesec [*] http://www.gallery2.org/ [*] http://gallery.menalto.com Its web site has 622 hits for 'longdesc'. [0] However the implementation were very incorrect: it simply duplicated the @alt text into the @longdesc attribute. [1] This bug was "fixed" in august 2007, when the feature simply was removed - see bug report. [2] Given its popularity, it seems relevant to consider if not Gallery is an important for the link rot and misue which the @longdesc contestesrs, including Mark Pilgrim's Longdesc Lottery article, so often has cited as reason to park @longdesc as absolete. [3]. PS: It seems like gallery software should be investigated a little more - both to detect other possible buggy implementations that could have lead to longdesc lottery style rotten links, as well as good examples. For example, most of the 44 results with 'longdesc' on coppermine-gallery.net seems to contain links to images rather than being links to long description. [4] [0] http://www.google.no/search?q=site%3Amenalto.com+longdesc [1] http://gallery.menalto.com/node/49284 [2] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1699582&group_id=7130&atid=107130 [3] http://blog.whatwg.org/the-longdesc-lottery [4] http://www.google.no/search?q=longdesc+site:coppermine-gallery.net -- leif halvard silli
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