- From: Daniel Weck <daniel.weck@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 21:20:17 +0000
- To: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
- Cc: Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, WAI XTech <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>, "Ted O'Connor" <eoconnor@apple.com>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
"Long" descriptions (i.e. @longdesc in the case of HTML images, or @aria:describedAt for any markup fragment) are indeed valuable to users who are neither blind nor visually-impaired, and who do not necessarily make use of Assistive Technology (e.g. screen readers, refreshable hardware braille displays) to access web / ebook information. For example: people with socio-cognitive disabilities who have difficulties interpreting certain graphical metaphors. I can also see this mechanism being used by deaf users to view additional descriptive sign language videos, that would otherwise not be directly embedded within the main content flow. Again, no specialised accessibility interface, just the regular User Interface affordances exposed by mainstream web-browser (such as the context menu on desktop platforms). Regards, Daniel
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