- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:36:30 +0200
- To: public-pfwg-comments@w3.org
I hereby formally propose that role="img" permits a long description link inside. That is: there should be some way to make sure that a long description link inside a role="img" element, is presented to AT users as a link. One motiviation for this request is to allow @longdesc be implemented as a normal link. And I hope ARIA will explain how AT which already support @longdesc should treat @longdesc when they see a parallel long description link. (They should probably ignore the @longdesc and use the long description link instead.) Currently, ARIA requires AT to treat children of role="img" elements as presentational. And, even if you point to a link inside the role="img" elment via aria-labelledby, the link is only presented as a text string, without link features. The method I would propose is that the first link with a rel="longdesc" or aria-longdesc="true" attribute inside the role="img" element, is treated as a long description link and presented to the user user as a link. This idea was first described in the following letters, which I recommend to read for more detail: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2010Sep/0030 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2010Sep/0031 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Sep/0429 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2010Sep/0033 -- leif halvard silli HTMLwg invited expert
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