- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:59:23 +1100
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
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: >> >> Dear Chairs, >> >> May I suggest that the resolution of this issue is dependent on the >> resolution of several other issues and discussions currently under >> way. I therefore propose to delay dealing with this issue until such >> other issues are resolved. This includes in particular the @longdesc >> discussion. >> >> 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? I can now. Please find a proposal for aria-describedat under discussion at http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/aria-unofficial/raw-file/tip/describedat.html . I expect that this attribute will be added to Aria 1.1 and it satisfies the needs of Issue 194. I would therefore like to repeat my request to not resolve this issue at this time. Best Regards, Silvia.
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