Re: My case for the obsoletion of longdesc (Was: 48-Hour Consensus Call: InstateLongdesc CP Update) from Joshue O Connor on 2012-09-15 (public-html-a11y@w3.org from September 2012)

From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:09:57 +0100
To: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
CC: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, w3c-wai-pf@w3.org
Message-ID: <5054E095.3000501@cfit.ie>

Welcome aboard James!

Will parse the thread in Monday and I look forward to some further 
informed discussion and a copasetic resolution to the deadlock on this.

Note, while I'm currently in favour of re-instating @longdesc - as to my 
mind their just isn't currently a functional equivalent in HTML5 - I'm 
not fanatical about it at all. I'm also open to any fair progressive 
discussion that can go beyond inherent @longdesc limitations, build on 
lessons learned from that attribute and improve on what has gone before.

Cheers

Josh

Received on Saturday, 15 September 2012 20:10:31 UTC