- From: Léonie Watson <lwatson@tetralogical.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 12:17:23 +0000
- To: Stephane Deschamps <w3c@nota-bene.org>, "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
There is almost no support for longdesc in browsers or by screen readers anymore. I haven't checked since June last year, but the results at that time are documented here: https://test-cases.tink.uk/longdesc/index.html Léonie. On 14/01/2022 07:02, Stephane Deschamps wrote: > Hello fellow accessibility people, > > I remember the age-long battle to keep longdesc into the spec, and > then moving it to its own[1] as the main spec marked it as deprecated. > It is now marked as **obsolete and non-conforming** in the HTML5.2 > spec[2] so I'm at a loss as to whether one can implement it or not, > considering one official recommendation versus the other. > > Could anyone clear that up for me please? > > Thanks for any input! > Stephane > > [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/html-longdesc/ > [2] > https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features > -- Director @TetraLogical https://tetralogical.com
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