- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 22:57:54 -0400
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Cc: Matthew Turvey <mcturvey@gmail.com>, Geoff Freed <geoff_freed@wgbh.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Charles McCathieNevile writes: > On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:25:48 +0200, Matthew Turvey > <mcturvey@gmail.com> wrote: > > >On 3 April 2012 14:50, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com> wrote: > > > >>Possibly, but it is clear that despite poor implementation, the > >>fact that a real proportion of the audience who *needs* this > >>stuff don't > >>really understand how it works, and that it is expensive, thoughtful > >>publishers with years of experience in making stuff accessible for > >>real world use cases have decided that the expense of using longdesc > >>is justified. > > > >I think that's probably because WAI have been giving out misleading > >UA/AT support information for longdesc in WCAG H45: > > I doubt it. It isn't news that longdesc support is patchy. And I am > talking about the people who spend real money to understand better > than we do what *really*happens* in the world. > Like, for example, the Association of American Publishers who explicitly pleaded with the HTML-WG to reinstate longdesc because they depend on it greatly. Note they're speaking from production experience. Note also they're talking about rich text, not simple ASCII paragraphs. http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13461 Janina > -- > Charles 'chaals' McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group > je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg kan noen norsk > http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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