- From: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:53:40 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "'Masatomo Kobayashi'" <MSTM@jp.ibm.com>
- Cc: "'Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis'" <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>, "'Laura Carlson'" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, "'HTML Accessibility Task Force'" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Masatomo Kobayashi wrote: > > Both of you are right. > Home Page Reader is not maintained now even in Japan while it still has > many active users in Japan. > The status might change in the near future, but at this point the > description in the current Change Proposal seems to be quite > appropriate. > > > Home Page Reader has native support of longdesc and is still used in > Japan for longdesc, even though it stopped being maintained five years > ago. Thank you Masatomo for your clarification, it is useful and welcomed. Cheers! JF > > Regards, > Masatomo > > "John Foliot" <jfoliot@stanford.edu> wrote on 2011/05/06 10:16:27: > > > > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > > > > > > > > > Also, I think we should openly state that Home Page Reader stopped > > > being maintained half a decade ago, if we're going to cite it > > > as an example implementation. > > > > While I believe this is the case in North America, I recall hearing > from > > > more than one colleague from the Asian Pacific region that HPR is > still > in > > active use there. I will follow up and try to confirm that. > > > > JF > >
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