- From: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:59:18 -0700
- To: "'Charles McCathie Nevile'" <chaals@yandex-team.ru>, "'Steve Faulkner'" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, "'Silvia Pfeiffer'" <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: "'HTML Accessibility Task Force'" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: > > TL;DR: I think the explanation should be improved, but I can live with > it. > I don't see a viable alternative to longdesc after more than half a > decade > of many smart people trying, so I conclude we aren't ready to replace > it. <snip> > > I conclude that while implementation uptake has been very slow, it > exists > and shows that longdesc implementation is feasible and meets the > requirements. Therefore dropping longdesc in the absence of a workable > alternative is at best premature and probably harmful, and at worst an > unequivocal step backwards for accessibility. +1 I support this Change Proposal JF
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