- From: Matthew Turvey <mcturvey@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:08:15 +0000
- To: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Cc: Chaals McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, "W3C WAI Protocols & Formats" <public-pfwg@w3.org>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
On 11 December 2015 at 17:58, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com> wrote: > I really dont want to have the longdesc debate again, do you? It is a W3C > recommendation. It is part of HTML5. It satisfies the requirements for > this particular problem. They should use it. The "pretty abysmal" level of support for longdesc is a pretty convincing reason not to use it, isn't it? https://twitter.com/jared_w_smith/status/639533682982653952 There's a pull request to bring the WAI tutorial page on complex images up to date, including adding a warning about the current level of support for longdesc: https://github.com/w3c/wai-tutorials/issues/330 Once that's done we could just reference this page: http://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/complex/ This seems to be a great way to use WAI's WCAG tutorial pages, and it would allow spec editors to assess for themselves whether they should use longdesc, or a widely-supported technique. -Matt
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