- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:55:23 +0200
- To: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
- Cc: alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>, wai-xtech <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Joseph Scheuhammer, Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:43:53 -0400: > On 12-04-20 12:19 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> ... >>> I also looked into what Orca does in this case, including a brief >>> discussion with some of the developers. Orca ignores the action, or >>> perhaps more accurately, didn't even know it was available. >> >> Good to hear they know are aware ... > > Part of the problem is that browsers do not expose @longdesc in a11y > APIs in the same way. It's not interoperable, or so I've heard. > It's not surprising, then, that ATs don't necessarily invest in it. Well, your description of how @longdesc works, matches quite well how iCab and Opera treats longdesc, I think. And, also, if AT just added support for Firefox' built-in longdesc support rather than "inventing" their own, then I guess we would see more rather than less unity. -- Leif H Silli
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