I understand but publishers won't stick polyfills in their books.
We need to fix the cross browser support problem with details/summary.
Since aria-describedat is not implemented either we I don't see
details/summary as taking any longer time.
Rich Schwerdtfeger
From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
To: Chaals McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
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Date: 08/11/2015 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: aria-describedat
> On Aug 11, 2015, at 2:40 AM, Chaals McCathie Nevile
<chaals@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 20:29:57 +0200, Gunderson, Jon R
> <jongund@illinois.edu> wrote:
>
>> Rich,
>>
>> In your example does the SUMMARY element content serve as the text
equivalent for the image, or would the image also need an ALT attribute?
>
> In the example as suggested, it appears that there needs to be an alt as
well.
>
> Actually, the example wouldn't work at the moment, and would force
everyone to read the full table, which is pretty sub-optimal, given that
details/summary isn't implemented - and therefore nor is it part of an HTML
standard.
Straw man fallacy.
The referenced example works fine.
http://cookiecrook.com/longdesc/details/
It has native support in Safari & Chrome, and proof-of-concept polyfill
support in Firefox & IE.
> An alternative is to provide the table via longdesc, but while almost all
screenreaders support this fine, support for non-screenreader users in
browsers is still pretty much rubbish :(
Rubbish, indeed.
