- From: Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:48:07 +0200
- To: "Denis Boudreau" <dboudreau@webconforme.com>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On 6/23/07, Denis Boudreau <dboudreau@webconforme.com> wrote: > Longdesc are essential for screen readers to provide long > descriptions for graphics that otherwise could not be described > because the nature of their content is just too complicated for a > simple alt attribute. And such images are rare on the internet. We can't use data about all the image to check if complicated ones are accessible. > This is a crucial feature for the benefit of > visually impaired users working with screen readers. Longdesc > provides the ONLY mean available to describe, in a non-obtrusive way, > the nature of an image in an external file while remaining invisible > to typical, unimpaired users and user agents. Screen readers are > finally getting it's implementation right and we're dropping it? Reading that, I wonder if the nature of the target element by the longdesc is not a little bit underspecified. If i indicate for a Mona Lisa picture to @longdesc="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Joconde", is it still usefull for screen readers ? Perhaps the linked page should only contain the longdesc and no menu, footer, ... -- Olivier G. http://www.lespacedunmatin.info/blog/
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