- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:19:46 -0500
- To: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, w3c-wai-pf@w3.org, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <gregory.rosmaita@gmail.com>
Hi Josh, >> I would not agree that forcing a long description upon a user is elegant. > > Ok. The word 'force' is a little strong but I take your point. I'm not being > flip here (more as a personal aside) but please note that - as a sighted > person I see many images that I may not want to - immediately, if @longdesc > is a functional equivalent to a primarily visual medium - should the > immediacy of the interaction not follow a similar model? Consuming a long description should be a user choice. I have pulled several of the fundamentals together at: http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/research/constriants/choice.html John explains it very well. > The interaction is mediated via the AT which can of course (and should) act > as a bridge to facilitatate a particular user experience. How this is done > should be handled by a combination of user defined preferences (verbosity?) > and choice. Yes. > Anyway, really this is UA issue, right? Yes. > Firstly, we need to have the > mechanism that can do this defined/contained in the spec first - as I am > sure you will agree. So apologies if I got ahead of myself in terms of > engineering the interaction. It was purely for the purposes of illustration. No worries. > Am glad to hear that GJR is still contributing via the aethers. Yes. Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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