On 30 November 2015 at 14:54, John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com> wrote: > I don’t get to decide here, but I am not a huge fan of dismissing real > needs and real use-cases on behalf of expediency, and as recently as this > weekend I was reviewing actual content from an educational publisher who > had both captions and long descriptions on their complex graphics. I’m not > sure what Steve looked at, but a representative sampling may not have > caught enough of the edge (but substantial edge) case here. The concerns about figcaptions being used for lengthy descriptive text was raised by the a11y taskforce way back (2011): http://www.w3.org/2011/06/16-html-a11y-minutes.html#item01 JB: from research i have been doing on it the instances in which you will > get much longer captions is scientific publications > ... when i look at the html5 spec they have not contemplated on how > figcaption is going to be used > ... diverse types of usage not addrerssed, only some are suitable for alt > fallback > ... is there a heuristic that could be used so validity is not > automatically conferred > -- Regards SteveF Current Standards Work @W3C <http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/>
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