- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:43:15 +0200
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
- Cc: Adrian Roselli <Roselli@algonquinstudios.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Sam Ruby, Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:36:13 -0400: > We have evidence that longdesc works well in education settings that > exist behind copyright restrictions, and authors of addons quite > willing to fill in gaps that major browser vendors may leave: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2012Sep/0382.html > > We also have indications that longdesc as currently defined is not > quite as successful in non-educational non-copyright restricted > settings: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2012Sep/0295.html Quite a few of the use cases that the longdesc Change Proposal identifies are 'restricted' in one way or another. Take for instance the HTML newsletter e-mail use case. For one, embedded content in HTML e-mail is a big issue in itself. My e-mail program allows me to disable and enable image display. But it does not allow me to see embedded iframes it. My old client, Thunderbirds by default blocks external content - but allows me to enable, including iframe. Leif Halvard Silli
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