- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:33:14 -0500
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Hi Silvia, In the other thread you said, > My main reason for going for another attribute is that I > want it used for more than just <img>. No reason why longdesc could not do that. John has longdesc incorporated into a couple of his media change proposals. If I recall correctly Janina may have mentioned at one time for a replacement for a table summary. After it is reinstated in HTML, if use cases are presented, the longdesc attribute could very well fulfill those use cases by being made a valid attribute on elements that need a semantic, programmatic determinable long description or if warranted by being made a global attribute. This would enable developers of tools producing HTML to use the same native HTML mechanism for adding descriptions. In fact, Jonas responded to a question asking, "Would it be possible to make longdesc a global attribute?" by saying, "This is software, anything is possible" [1]. Best Regards, Laura [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0624.html
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