hi leif, >The bug is probably in MSAA and not in IE itself. the bug is in the IE implementation acc description is for a human readable description not to pass URL's the implementation is broken and poorly thought out. regards stevef On 14 March 2012 13:23, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no > wrote: > 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 > > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com | www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives - dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/ Web Accessibility Toolbar - www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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