- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:21:11 -0700
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: HTML WG LIST <public-html@w3.org>
Ugh, I'm really sorry to send this so late, but here is my change proposal. http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/DeprecateLongdesc I'll likely tweak it a bit over the weekend and I'd love to get help from anyone who's willing to. In particular I'd like to add a section showing how to use aria-describedby to get the various behaviors that people have been bringing up in use cases. / Jonas On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > I'd like to write a counter proposal. The proposal would request that > the spec specifically points out that the ARIA spec already requires > that aria-describedby can point to rich content, including <a>-links. > The proposal would further make pointing aria attributes (including > aria-describedby) to elements that are "hidden" using the @hidden > attribute legal. > > I should have time to write such a proposal before June 25th. > > / Jonas > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote: >> 'Should HTML 5 include a longdesc attribute for images' >> >> The current status for this issue: >> >> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/30 >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-30 >> >> This issue was reopened on March 2nd 2011: >> >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0037.html >> >> We have a single Change Proposal to include longdesc in HTML5: >> >> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/InstateLongdesc >> >> At this time the Chairs would also like to solicit alternate Change >> Proposals (possibly with "zero edits" as the Proposal Details), in case >> anyone would like to advocate the status quo or a different change than the >> specific one in the existing Change Proposal. >> >> The following Change Proposal can be resubmitted, but we strongly urge it to >> be updated to reflect the new information provided before doing so: >> >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0393.html >> >> If no counter-proposals or alternate proposals are received by June 25th, >> 2011, we will proceed to evaluate the Change Proposal that we have received >> to date. >> >> - Sam Ruby >> >> >
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