- From: John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:05:43 -0600
- To: "'James Craig'" <jcraig@apple.com>, "'HTML Accessibility Task Force'" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, "'W3C WAI Protocols & Formats'" <public-pfwg@w3.org>
- Cc: "'Janina Sajka'" <janina@rednote.net>
James Craig [mailto:jcraig@apple.com] wrote: > > > 1.) The diagram in this document should have a longdesc. > > -1. This is why we can't have nice things. I object to this statement. You can have all the nice you want, just make sure it is accessible to all. The graphic in question requires a long description. Period. How the W3C chooses to deliver that long description is secondary to that requirement, but I will state that the solution MUST work with existing user-agents today - multiple combinations of screen readers and browsers, on multiple OSes. The solution must also be implementable in the W3C TR publishing space (which I suspect, but cannot confirm, rules out applying polyfills, etc.) > > Neither @longdesc nor SVG is a requirement for accessibility. Nor, we should note, are they off the table either, as both are legitimate W3C specifications, and the use of @longdesc is in fact one of the techniques W3C suggests to meet WCAG 2 AA conformance (http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20140916/H45). JF
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