[Bug 21987] Consider adding a sister attribute to act as a toggle to trigger longdesc discoverability.

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21987

Chris Mills <cmills@w3.org> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Chris Mills <cmills@w3.org> ---
Chaals is absolutely right of course - I agree that there is nothing really
that can't already be done.

But I was thinking of an easier way to add discoverability for longdesc
targets. Specifically I was thinking that if you added this "longdesclink" (or
whatever) attribute to images, it would cause the browser to display a link to
the longdesc target next to the image. So for example

<img src="linegraph.jpg" 
  alt="Line graph of the number of subscribers" 
  longdesc="longdesc/linegraph.html" 
  longdesclink>

Would result in the browser displaying

<a href="longdesc/linegraph.html">Line graph of the number of subscribers</a>

beside the image at runtime.

Yes, this would be trivial to knock together with script, but even so, script
is not within the realms of everyone.

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