- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:03:57 -0500
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@exchange.microsoft.com>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Hi Jonas, > Also, please don't argue to *me* that removing support is bad. I wasn't arguing that. I was stating a fact about Opera's support. Also a fact: WAI CG Consensus Resolutions on Text alternatives in HTML 5 stated: <quote> Because we are confident that aria-describedby will be supported by assistive technologies at least as well as longdesc when HTML5 becomes a W3C Recommendation: * IF - aria-describedby is incorporated in HTML5 - and aria-describedby allows pointing to long text alternatives that are off of the page (by pointing to a link on the page) * THEN - we believe it is acceptable to obsolete longdesc in HTML5. RATIONALE: It is important that a long text mechanism exist which is capable of pointing off page. Long descriptions are often too lengthy and detailed to be included on the main page. If aria-describedby can point off page (by pointing to a link on the page) then it would remove any need for continued support of LONGDESC which is not widely used by authors at this time. (NOTE: it is understood that aria-describedby cannot point off page directly.)" http://www.w3.org/2009/06/Text-Alternatives-in-HTML5 Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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