RE: Call for Consensus (CfC): Comments on the MSE CR

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

Received on Friday, 11 December 2015 18:06:16 UTC