- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 09:37:36 -0400
- To: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
The following news overnight from Mozilla ... > --- Comment #59 from Jennifer Morrow [:Boriss] (Firefox UX) <jboriss@mozilla.com> 2013-05-29 16:05:00 PDT --- > After further looking into this, we've decided to support the longdesc > attribute in Firefox. > > While we've considered longdesc in the past, the landscape has changed and > there are reasons to support it now. For one, the W3C validator now supports > it, making it more likely to be supported across browsers. Authors who want to > make pages accessible may not be able to rely on longdesc on any browser, but > there isn't presently another standardized option available. And, importantly, > it can be implemented without disrupting the user experience of users who don't > require it. Underscoring all of this is that the Mozilla project is a > community, and our actions must reflect the needs and wants of the community. > > There is a chicken and egg issue here, as Alastair notes in comment 20. > Supporting longdesc means that the door to wider adoption is open, and perhaps > authors will surprise us with innovative uses of this attribute once they feel > freer to do so. And, perhaps in time better solutions to some of the problems > longdesc tackles will emerge. While we'll always be open to browser > improvements, particularly in the accessibility space, we shouldn't ignore a > ready solution because it's not perfect. > > I've opened Bug 877453 for the implementation of the longdesc attribute and am > dup'ing this one. > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 877453 *** > > Referenced Bugs: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=877453 > [Bug 877453] Expose longdesc in image context menus > -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: 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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