FYI: Call for Review: HTML Image Description Extension (longdesc)

Colleagues:

The following notice was posted today via the WAI Interest Group list.
Congratulations to this Task Force on this major milestone that was so
very long in the making.

Janina
On behalf of herself and her Co-Facilitators, Steve and Charles

Shawn Henry writes:
> Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,
> 
> The W3C HTML Working Group today published the First Public Working Draft of:
>     HTML Image Description Extension
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/html-longdesc
> 
> This specification ("HTML-longdesc") enables web authors to provide longer text descriptions for complex images. It defines the "longdesc" attribute to link descriptions with images in HTML5 content.
> 
> HTML-longdesc is an extension specification that is part of the HTML5 family of specifications [1], which enables it to evolve independently and be finalized more rapidly. HTML-longdesc is part of W3C's work to ensure that the Open Web Platform [2] is accessible to people with disabilities [3].
> 
> Based on this publication, the following changes will be implemented in the coming weeks:
> * W3C validator [4] will validate longdesc as conforming HTML5.
> * longdesc will be removed from the HTML obsolete features list.
> 
> Comments: Please send any comments on this Draft to the publicly archived HTML Accessibility Task Force mailing list:
>     public-html-a11y@w3.org
>     by 10 April 2013
> 
> Working Groups: HTML-longdesc was developed by the HTML Accessibility Task Force under the WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) and the HTML Working Group (HTML WG). [5]
> 
> About the URI: The first URI above goes to the latest version of the specification. The "dated" version of this Working Draft is: <http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-html-longdesc-20130312/> The difference between these URIs are explained in Referencing and Linking to WAI Guidelines and Technical Documents at: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/linking>
> 
> Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your comments.
> Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible.
> 
> Regards,
> ~Shawn Henry, WAI Outreach
> HTML Accessibility Task Force Co-Facilitators: Steve Faulkner, Charles McCathie-Neville, Janina Sajka
> HTML WG Chairs: Paul Cotton, Sam Ruby, Maciej Stachowiak
> PFWG Chair: Janina Sajka
> W3C Staff: Judy Brewer, Michael Cooper, Philippe Le Hégaret, Michael Smith
> 
> 
> [1] Blog about extension specifications <http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/09/getting_html5_to_recommendatio>
> [2] Open Web Platform standards <http://www.w3.org/standards/>
> [3] Accessibility - W3C <http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility>
> [4] HTML Validator (W3C Markup Validation Service) <http://validator.w3.org/>
> [5] HTML Accessibility Task Force <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/html-accessibility-tf>
>      W3C WAI PFWG <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/>
>      W3C HTML WG <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/>
> 
> 
> 
> -----
> Shawn Lawton Henry
> W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
> e-mail: shawn@w3.org
> phone: +1.617.395.7664
> about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/

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Received on Tuesday, 12 March 2013 15:58:07 UTC