- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:00:45 +1000
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Geoff Freed <geoff_freed@wgbh.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Laura Carlson > <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Geoff, >> >> I will be leaving the HTMLWG and accessibility task force shortly as >> Judy sent me the link to the form. But before I go I wanted to add to >> you're statement: >> >>> Publishers in America have used it extensively in the past and are continuing to use it today as it's the best *available* method to deliver long descriptions to students that need them. >> >> longdesc improves accessibility in practice: >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2012Sep/att-0025/comments-mt.html#practice >> >> Notably the two sister sites Statistics Canada and Statistique Canada >> began consistently using longdesc in "The Daily" publication. "The >> Daily" produces statistics on a business-day basis that help Canadians >> better understand their country, its population, resources, economy, >> society and culture. Please refer to Statistics Canada and Statistique >> Canada for detailed evidence. >> http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/research/ld.html#statcan >> http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/research/ld.html#statcanf >> >> longdesc is experiencing increased usage in the wild >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2012Sep/att-0025/comments-mt.html#increasedusage > > > This is very good data and a great list of sites that support longdesc > for their accessibility needs. I have always admired your excellently > prepared data and the excellent work you've done for the TF, so I am > really sad to see you go. > > Interestingly, you data actually confirms the message that I just sent > on another thread [1] about moving to @aria-describedat. I would think > that all of these institutions that are supportive of accessibility > and are using @longdesc in the correct way for this purpose would > accept moving to use @aria-describedat if we encouraged them to do so. > In this way, the vast pollution of @longdesc values that we see in the > wild would be replaced by only clean and accurate use of > @aria-describedat . It would make it easier for tools to identify > sites that have appropriate and usable long text alternatives, since > you can just search for @aria-describedat and know you will get good > results, rather than searching for @longdesc and having to wade > through vast numbers of misuses. > > Thanks again. > > Regards, > Silvia. > > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2012Sep/0447.html Actually, I meant to reference this email: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2012Sep/0456.html Regards, Silvia.
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