Re: ISSUE-30 (Longdesc) Change Proposal

Joshue O Connor On 09-10-30 17.02:

> Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
>> Joshue O Connor On 09-10-30 15.04:
>>
>>> Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
>>>> Leif Halvard Silli On 09-10-30 13.30:
>>>>
>>>>> Joshue O Connor On 09-10-30 12.24:
>>>>    [...]
>>>>
>>>>> The purpose of ARIA seems to me to be to let the UA "compute" the A11Y
>>>>> layer on behalf of the author and the user. Whereas @longdesc as well
>>>>> as "normal fallback" (such as @alt content and the fallback of
>>>>> <object>) are "real" fallback that relies on regular hyper text.
>>>> Therefore it seems more logical to me to include @longdesc into ARIA
>>>> than to introduce aria-link.
>>>>
>>>> Introducing longdesc into ARIA *and* make longdesc do - in ARIA -
>>>> whatever you envision that ARIA-link could do, would a) increase the
>>>> take up of longdesc, and b) be backward compatible and un-confusing.
>>> I don't really follow. As already @aria-describedby is a long
>>> descriptor, hampered only by its inability to ref a URI.
>> How is it aria-describedby hampered, then, by not being a link, in your
>> view? What do you mean by "link"? I think what you primarely have in
>> mind is that we can include content that exist in another page. So, you
>> just want the ARIA enabled User Agent to be able to collect the long
>> description URI and present the content as part of the ARIA text
>> equivalent computation behaviour.
> 
> Yes.

And what about users of "low tech" AT?
-- 
leif halvard

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