Re: Drop longdesc, get aria-describedat?

Quoting Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis:
>
> For a hidden long description mechanism to succeed we need to involve
> people who are involved in producing mainstream user interfaces (or
> produce them ourselves), not just retreat into a well-meaning internal
> discussion between "a11y technicians". Getting interfaces comparable
> to Charles's Tell Me More extension built into user agents is no small
> challenge when a dominant tendency in software design is towards
> minimalism, streamlining, and the Pareto principle.
>

Ben,

As you're one of those who has been involved in the "well-meaning  
internal discussion", I'd like to point you to the following:

http://john.foliot.ca/csun-2012-recap/#ought

Thanks.

JF

Received on Saturday, 10 March 2012 18:17:29 UTC