- From: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:13:30 -0700
- To: "'David Singer'" <singer@apple.com>, "'Gez Lemon'" <g.lemon@webprofession.com>
- Cc: "'HTML Accessibility Task Force'" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
David Singer wrote: > > The trouble is, longdesc is neither widely supported nor reliable > today. If it was, I suspect that we would not be having this > discussion. > With due respect, that wholly depends on how you measure support and reliability. It's true that most major browsers do nothing with @longdesc today, but the market leading screen reader does, so for those users the support both exists, and works dependably. As Geoff Freed also points out, this very technique is being used in a large number of educational materials today, so increasingly, non-sighted students can start to expect that longer textual descriptions may very well be provided to them, (although sadly only if they use specific technology tools today). From personal experience, most non-sighted students *DO* have JAWs installed, even if they only use it some of the time. JF
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