- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:31:58 -0400
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, 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 writes: > 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. > You're assuming use in the wild is some kind of useful yardstick. I submit the most consistent and important use of the longdesc attribute is actually NOT in the wild, e.g. https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13461 http://ncam.wgbh.org/experience_learn/educational_media/stemdx#top Janina > Silvia. -n- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net The Linux Foundation Chair, Open Accessibility: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
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