- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:31:50 -0400 (EDT)
- To: WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- Cc: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk
> I'm giving a talk on web accessibility shortly. I'd like to know the
> status of mainstream browser support for LONGDESC.
Don't limit your options. Focus on the extent of *support*.
* iCab on Macintosh
* Mozilla and Netscape 6 and later
* IBM Home Page Reader (apparently)
* Jaws 4.01 and later
Nothing else that I know of. At all. The defunct Windows screen
reader pwWebSpeak used to support it.
> But doesn't say whether the file can be HTML, XHTML, plain text, etc.
> (or that it shouldn't be PDF, GIF, etc.!), can contains JavaScript, etc.
> Although the example give a file with a .html extension.
It can be any URI.
> If use of longdesc is needed to future-proof Web resources for when
> browser support is available, are their any guidelines on using
> longdesc?
There will be when we finally finish proofing my book and it gets
published.
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Received on Tuesday, 6 August 2002 21:33:46 UTC