- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:51:08 +0200
- To: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
- Cc: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, 'Steve Faulkner' <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, 'W3C WAI-XTECH' <wai-xtech@w3.org>, 'Richard Schwerdtfeger' <schwer@us.ibm.com>
James Craig, Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:43:49 -0700: > On Apr 20, 2011, at 12:39 PM, John Foliot wrote: > >> James Craig wrote: >>> Can you give a specific example (using real text, not lorem ipsum) of >>> where this might be needed? I'd just like to come up with a defensible >>> case that cannot be done another way, or one that would gain >>> significant benefit over the alternative if done this way. >> >> Taking a stab at this request: >> >> <img >> src="http://macdailynews.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/110201_nielsen_01.png >> " alt="Line Graph - Mobile Operating System Share, US Q4 '09 - Q4 '10" >> aria-description="The graph shows the rapid growth of Android from 2% to >> 27% market share, a 11% decline for Blackberry OS to 27%, and a relatively >> flat pattern for iOS at 28% over a 14 month period."> >> … >> Would this meet your use-case request? > > It's decidedly better than @longdesc, if for no other reason than > because it's already local. In what sense "local"? A URL can be local too: <img longdesc="data:text/html,<title>Local Description</titel><p>Blah."> <img longdesc="#local"> > Added to the ARIA 2.0 issue for "longdesc" > http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/411 I have no access to that bug, but I thought it was said that it had nothing to do wiht @longdesc ... -- Leif H Silli
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