Re: Is longdesc a good solution? (was: Acessibility of <audio> and <video>) from Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) on 2008-09-09 (wai-xtech@w3.org from September 2008)

From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:07:46 +0100
To: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>
CC: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Matt Morgan-May <mattmay@adobe.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Message-ID: <48C6BB72.2090900@Rhul.Ac.Uk>

Isn't "long replacement" exactly what
fallback content is in <object> ?

** Phil.
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David Poehlman wrote:
> I was trying to say that @longdesc should contain an indepth description and 
> not be used as replacement.  We don't have anything for long replacement 
> that I know of.

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