- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 22:50:38 +0100
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, Adrian Roselli <Roselli@algonquinstudios.com>, Mathew Marquis <mat@matmarquis.com>, Peter Winnberg <peter.winnberg@gmail.com>, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, "public-respimg@w3.org" <public-respimg@w3.org>
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote: > An element like <desc> would provide a semantic holder for rich text > on-page long descriptions. > > However, it would be hamstrung to on-page descriptions. It would not > be a direct off-page long description that could be applied globally > across multiple sites, or across an entire site, or across a subset of > pages. > http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/research/constriants/separate-doc.html It's hard to follow exactly what sorts of text alternatives the participants in this thread are trying to provide (plain text accessible names, plain text accessible descriptions, rich short text alternative, rich long text alternatives, etc) but … Note <desc> would support reuse of long descriptions using anchors and iframes like so: <desc><a href=longdesc.html>Long description</a></desc> <desc><iframe src=longdesc.html></iframe></desc> -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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