- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:15:41 +0000
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, Michael Smith <mike@w3.org>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Leif Halvard Silli > <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote: >> Laura Carlson, Thu, 8 Mar 2012 12:06:52 -0600: >> >> First off: Steve yesterday confirmed that Internet Explorer's longdesc >> implementation is plain wrong: It treats the URL as text string. Thus >> it implements it precisely the way the WHATWG blog once ridiculed the >> @longdesc usage for. See this bug: >> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16268 > > If that is indeed the case, then all those people that have put > hyperlinks into the @longdesc attribute have ended up with non-usable > longdesc values in IE. @longdesc is therefore not usable for the > purposes that we intend it to be used for, since it is not implemented > compatibly across browsers. (a) That @longdesc is not reliably implemented across all popular user agents is hardly news. (b) Even if @longdesc is exposed as a string in some MSAA field in some versions of IE, that does not mean that behavior is not expected and handled by key AT such as JAWS, Window-Eyes, and Dolphin. For example, they may just query the DOM directly in IE's case. Notoriously, a lot of accessibility has to be hacked on top of MSAA because its semantics are woefully inadequate. > This to me is a very strong argument to move on to a new attribute so > we can start on a clean slate for all relevant elements with well > defined implementation details. You'll stil have to hack on top of MSAA somehow. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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