- From: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:35:39 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
On Feb 18, 2008 12:24 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote: > > > If wai-aria goes in we have an aria-describedby property which can reference > an area of the document allowing for the prose to be associated with the > image. longdesc is almost never used as people want to use the same prose in > the original document. Something like the following? <table longdesc="#my_longdesc"> ... </table> ... <div id="my_longdesc"> <p>... If authors don't do that, I think it means that: * either they don't know they can * or they just don't want If it's the former case, it might be a problem of misinformation and/or editors not allowing them to do it. If it's the latter case, aria-describedby won't help. -- Thomas Broyer
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