- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:28:24 -0700
- To: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
- Cc: david bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com>, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, faulkner.steve@gmail.com, jbrewer@w3.org, George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com>, laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com, mike@w3.org, public-html-a11y@w3.org, w3c-wai-pf@w3.org, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:58 PM, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca> wrote: > Quoting Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>: > >> >> While a nice idea, @hasurl is a broad concept and doesn't state what >> you're supposed to find behind the url. I believe what we're after is >> something a bit more semantic - a link that takes a user to a Web page >> that contains (mainly textual) metadata > > > Not MetaData, real, human-readable textual data that describes in more > detail what the *foo* is that it is attached to. Metadata = data about data. long description = a long description (i.e. data) about the element (i.e. data) >> JAWS and NVDA seem determined to not want to introduce a new >> user-interaction for @longdesc (which I think is fair enough, seeing >> as it's an attribute that's only used for accessibility). > > > Minor correction here: JAWS *has* introduced a new interaction for > @longdesc. When JAWS encounters the @longdesc attribute in an <img>, it > announces the @alt text and then states: "Press ALT plus Enter for Long > Description" - and then pauses waiting for the user to tab (continue) or hit > enter (explore). You mean: hit alt-enter? In any case: this is an interaction that the screenreader creates and not one that the browser creates. That's the key difference. I guess, we could ask if browsers would agree to using alt-enter as the recommended interaction for the new attribute. Cheers, Silvia.
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