- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:31:48 +1100
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote: > On 03/14/2012 11:04 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Sam Ruby<rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote: >>> >>> On 03/14/2012 08:27 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> In my mind, it is possible that the HTML WG decides that there is >>>> sufficient need for a general mechanism to add off-page textual >>>> representations to certain complex elements to HTML5, elements such as >>>> canvas, img, video, audio, table, or figure. If such a general >>>> mechanism were added - which could be called @longdesc or @href or >>>> @transcript - such a mechanism would fulfill the needs of this issue. >>> >>> >>> Can you cite any existing proposal that, if adopted, would address this >>> need? >> >> >> The need for a generic attribute to provide linked lengthy text >> representations for complex elements has been emerging. > > > Perhaps it could be something that html.next addresses. > > >> There isn't currently a proposal for such an attribute. One reason is >> that we've mainly looked at solving these problems with each element >> individually and haven't really abstracted this as a common problem >> yet. Another reason is that @longdesc could be expanded for such other >> elements, but right now it's not even conformant. Basically, we've not >> had this discussion yet. This is why I am asking for more time on this >> issue for<video>. > > > If you have something you wish to propose, please do so. I'll check with my > co-chairs, but my position is that I will not support deferring something > based on the possibility that something that nobody is actively working on > might actually happen. A @aria-describedAt attribute is under discussion. Are you saying that unless we make a concrete proposal for such an attribute, we may be better off moving this requirement to html.next? Cheers, Silvia.
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