- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:17:14 +0100
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
Sam Ruby, Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:36:23 -0500: > Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> Ian Hickson, Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:54:07 +0000 (UTC): >> [...] >>> == Rationale == >>> >>> Several studies have been performed. They have shown that: >> [...] >>> * Most users (more than 90%) don't want the interaction model that >>> longdesc="" implies. >>> [http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey2/#images] >> >> You don't find basis in that survey for saying the above. And I said >> in November [1] that I fail to see how that survey undermines >> @longdesc. >> >> Here is why: > > I'd like to ask that people only post if they had new information to > add. Well, I say thank you for that characterisation of my message. On the good side, I feel that I am in the same both as Ian there. > The goal here is to keep the list from being bogged down by long > threads that don't seem to be producing good results. > > My suggestion at this time is that people focus either on advocating > updates to one of the existing proposals regarding issue 30: > > http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/ChangeProposals/longdesc > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0393.html > > ... or stating their intent to produce another proposal. One of the possible outcomes that you listed in your reply to Ian's counter proposal, was discussion. It would certainly be new info for me if Ian told us how he links WebAIMs survey to his counter proposal. To that end, I have tried to show the ways that it does not support his proposal. -- leif halvard silli
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