RE: Re: longdesc and ARIA

AND - what is needed is the ability to make longdesc or some similarly "attachable" system that in 
addition to providing the usual appropriate elucidation for human readers, also provides a means 
whereby the resource is described in some RDF (or other metadata) guise to tie in with EARL. 

All of this speaks to the tragedy that has been the near-decade omission of ATAG-compliance in 
authoring tools which could fairly easily do all the necessary prompting to achieve something like 
Sean achieved with http://www.uwimp.com (from 2001!!).

Not to mention the complete avoidance of the "best practices" that would make XML itself hew to the 
line of accessible content. http://www.w3.org/TR/xag was written in 2002 and has been largely 
ignored and certainly not trumpeted. The tempus is gonna fugit right on by us all!

Love.


>From    : Gregory J. Rosmaita[mailto:unagi69@concentric.net]
what is needed is dialog with the WCAG group, so as to add this missing
dimension to its long descriptor strageties...  moreover, in the case of
a descriptive widget, it should be possible for a user to have the widget
displayed inline, where the image is declared, thereby obviating the need
for the user to manually invoke the long descriptor...

Received on Monday, 28 April 2008 16:24:25 UTC