- From: Mark Sadecki <mark.sadecki@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:09:48 -0400
- To: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAOego5NkFubkOACNNQspmEdoDa9vJN6bGm4kYE3L+J9BMmsHDA@mail.gmail.com>
I was excited to hear that support for longdesc was added to Orca [1]. I performed some tests and have the following to report: * Orca will announce “has description” after it reads the alt attribute value for an image with a longdesc attribute. As joanie notes [1], the user can then invoke the context sensitive menu and choose “View description” to visit the URL referenced in the longdesc attribute. * When inspecting Firefox, Accerciser reports that an Action “showlongdesc" is available. Clicking the “Perform action” button in Accerciser will open the URL referenced in the longdesc attribute in another browser tab. A screenshot that illustrates the above is available here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/1/view/nsjj327vb8yq4gq/Captured/KpESR.png Steps to reproduce: * downloaded, configured and installed the latest version of Orca [2] 3.13.91pre from the master branch * visited a test page from the longdesc-tests repo [3] * navigate to image with Orca turned on * inspect with Accerciser Special thanks to Joanmarie Diggs for her work maintaining Orca and for adding support for longdesc. [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2014-August/msg00327.html [2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/orca https://git.gnome.org/browse/orca [3] https://rawgit.com/chaals/longdesc-tests/master/external-image-external-description-girt-by-spaces.html Mark
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