- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:00:06 +0100
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- CC: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, public-html-a11y@w3.org
Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Joshue O Connor<joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie> wrote: >> Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >>> Having had a look at this data makes me wonder ... since none of the >>> sites that you've crawled had used longdesc correctly, either your set >>> of sites is dubious or we are really staring at a totally mis-informed >>> Web developer community. >> >> Lol! I think its the later :-) > > I was actually hoping it is the earlier because then we could repeat > the experiment with some sites that actually provide a proper > @longdesc. If even us a11y people can only find such sites by > hand-picking them, there is indeed something seriously wrong. I see. In reality is probably a combination, but I would be cautious of calling the sample population 'wrong' as they probably do represent valid if poorly implemented use cases. I actually think no matter what the 'shiny thing' is that will eventually replace @longdesc - we shall be having this same conversion in ~ 10 years. J
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