Re: Drop longdesc, get aria-describedat?

hi leif,

>The bug is probably in MSAA and not in IE itself.

the bug is in the IE implementation
acc description is for a human readable description not to pass URL's

the implementation is broken and poorly thought out.

regards
stevef

On 14 March 2012 13:23, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no
> wrote:

> Silvia Pfeiffer, Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:29:58 +1100:
> > Since IE is interpreting the text inside the @longdesc attribute as
> > text and not as a link, it's not working, no matter whether
> > screenreaders can re-interpret that text and do other things with it.
>
> The bug is probably in MSAA and not in IE itself. Or else, this -
> involved - method for getting a longdesc contextual menu in IE - demoed
> at the request of John, probably would not work:
>
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/accessibility/archive/2011/03/25/configuring-internet-explorer-to-handle-longdesc.aspx
> --
> Leif H Silli
>
>


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