Re: Longdesc testing in Linux

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

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Received on Wednesday, 20 August 2014 18:16:06 UTC