- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:23:46 +0100
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, RichardSchwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, HTMLAccessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Silvia Pfeiffer, Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:29:58 +1100: > Since IE is interpreting the text inside the @longdesc attribute as > text and not as a link, it's not working, no matter whether > screenreaders can re-interpret that text and do other things with it. The bug is probably in MSAA and not in IE itself. Or else, this - involved - method for getting a longdesc contextual menu in IE - demoed at the request of John, probably would not work: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/accessibility/archive/2011/03/25/configuring-internet-explorer-to-handle-longdesc.aspx -- Leif H Silli
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