- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:13:45 +0000
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: Matthew Turvey <mcturvey@gmail.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 7:58 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. What's the semantic difference between "additional information" for an element and a "long description" for an element? You could just reuse the existing @longdesc attribute for what you describe here. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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