- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 18:58:49 +1100
- To: Matthew Turvey <mcturvey@gmail.com>
- Cc: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Matthew Turvey <mcturvey@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think this is more an argument for a generalised solution for > putting multiple links (or commands) on any element. > > For example, your previous email outlined a scenario where an author > may want to put an image description link and a big raw JPG link on an > image. In this case, a longdesc could provide context menu access to > the image description. But another author may think it makes more > sense to put the image description as the normal link, and a link to > the raw JPG (or links to several different JPG sizes) on the context > menu. Is there anything we need to add to HTML5 to support this > general use case? I've been wondering about this. Maybe we should introduce a general HTML attribute called @info or @iref or something similar that provides a (potentially secondary) URL to any element. This URL would be exposed when exposing tooltips by showing a special icon, e.g. a triangle with a "!" and people can special click on it (e.g. CTRL-click or so) to follow it. For screenreaders it would read out "additional information available" so if you wanted to follow it, you could read a long description of what the element is about. This would work particularly well for audio, video and images (i.e. anything that has exernal resources), but could also work for term definitions or so. I'm particularly reminded of websites that pull in content from other sites, but enrich the keywords with hyperlinks to their definition. Might be an idea.. and would solve the longdesc case as well as the transcript case for videos. Cheers, Silvia.
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