- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:15:28 -0400
- To: Mark Sadecki <mark.sadecki@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Thanks, Mark. This is very helpful as we continue to develop the Implementation Report. One key question ... Do you see (via Accerciser) longdesc reported to AT-SPI, the Linux A11y API? This would be our: Sec. 3.0.3 User Agents ... If the longdesc value is valid, User agents must expose the link to relevant APIs, especially accessibility-oriented APIs. This is one detail I would particularly like to know for the Implementation Report. Thanks for anything you can do on this. Janina Mark Sadecki writes: > 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 -- 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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