- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:16:54 +0000
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- CC: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, public-html@w3.org
Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >>>>> 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? Hey, I'm not the one who culled @longdesc in the first place lol :-) Cheers Josh
Received on Friday, 30 October 2009 16:17:34 UTC