- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:19:28 +0100
- To: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
- Cc: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
John Foliot, Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:53:27 -0400: > Frankly, this entire thread has been nothing more than a > time-sink rehashing the same old same-old, allowing those who want to > dump @longdesc the opportunity (once again) to suggest "...those a11y > folks don't even know what they want" - which is pretty far from the > real truth, but continued hand-wringing and teeth gnashing over this > is truly not helping anything. Let @longdesc be retained in HTML5 and > then we can look to improve upon it in a measured and reasonable > time-frame. I continue to see the fact that we don't have 'the ARIA feature' as a one of the most credible reasons to retain 'the HTML feature'. Especially now that we know that PF wants to implement 'an ARIA feature'. But @longdesc's retainment would be even more credible, if ARIA formally already did EITHER incorporate 'the HTML feature', like it does with @alt, OR - in addition - had invented 'the ARIA feature'. Clearly Charles expressed impatience with PF. And I support you and him on that. Btw, has anyone filed a Chromium or Vox bug? Here is the Webkit bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10448 -- Leif H Silli
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