- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 00:45:50 +0200
- To: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Challenge from XStandard's Vlad Alexander: http://rebuildingtheweb.com/en/offer-to-save-longdesc/ Current options: ]] What are the choices available to authoring tool vendors? 1. Do nothing. Leave the longdesc user interface as is - labeled according to past specs/guidelines and consequently meaningless to content authors. 2. Comply with the HTML5 spec and remove the longdesc from user interfaces. 3. Ignore the spec and build interfaces based on what each vendor thinks the function of longdesc is and how it should be presented. [[ The alternative: ]] * if you reinstate the longdesc attribute * if you define the content that appears in the alt attribute as "textual substitute" for an image, and content appearing in the longdesc as a "description" of the image * we at XStandard will build a user interface for longdesc that will actually encourage content authors to use this feature and use it correctly. [[ -- leif halvard silli
Received on Thursday, 30 September 2010 22:46:57 UTC