- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:17:31 +0100
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- CC: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>, Denis Boudreau <dboudreau@webconforme.com>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com>, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>, "public-html-a11y@w3.org" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Hi all, A couple of quick things. Sylvia said: > However, I'm reacting to this statement being used as an argument for > the re-introduction to @longdesc: > > "It is unlikely that many content creators or developers will learn > ARIA (something not native HTML). They already feel like they've > learned far more than they should have to know under their job > description. And in many cases, their supervisors agree. (reference > Cliff Tyllick)" > > I think this statement does nothing to help the cause and quoting it > as an argument to introduce @longdesc is harmful. That's all. While harmful may be a little strong, I would be inclined to agree. While I agree with Laura that the comment is indicative of the reality of web dev for many, it could be counterprductive. I guess it's relatively trivial to remove or put somewhere else? We also don't want ARIA to be percieved as the 'poor second cousin' to HTML 5, and a comment like that kinda implies it. Regarding ariadescribedat, while this is a good idea - it is down the road in terms of implementation etc. @longdesc can ref a semantically rich URI, is good for backwards compat, is a bumpy cowpath but not a precedent and so on so while I also very much support ARIA - there is currently no functional equivalent within HTML 5, hence my support for Lauras CP and @longdesc in general. So right now, to my mind its not enough to say - lets do it with ARIA. Cheers Josh
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