- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 07:49:58 +0100
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote: > If authors want to send plain text then they should instead use ARIA. > For example, this works fine in VoiceOver: > > <img alt=Blah src=image aria-labelledby="script"> > <script type="text/plain" id="script">Lorem Ipsum.</script> > > This is much better than a separate plain/text docuemnt, as the > encoding is then taken care of. One of the requirements the TF adopted was that authors need to be point to external long text alternatives. Although I don't buy this requirement, it does not make sense to say this is required only if the long text alternative has a structure that can be expressed with markup. I don't buy the character encoding problem for text/plain, which seems soluble with out-of-band metadata like content-type (as you note) or sniffing. > Really, it disappoints me very much if we cannot agree that @longdesc > should point to HTML documents. Then we are promoting an unclear > picture of what @longdesc is for. We don't appear to have consensus about what @longdesc is for. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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