- From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:09:28 -0500
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- CC: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, "Sam Ruby (rubys@intertwingly.net)" <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "Maciej Stachowiak (mjs@apple.com)" <mjs@apple.com>, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>, Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,
The W3C HTML Working Group today published the First Public Working Draft of:
HTML Image Description Extension
http://www.w3.org/TR/html-longdesc
This specification ("HTML-longdesc") enables web authors to provide longer text descriptions for complex images. It defines the "longdesc" attribute to link descriptions with images in HTML5 content.
HTML-longdesc is an extension specification that is part of the HTML5 family of specifications [1], which enables it to evolve independently and be finalized more rapidly. HTML-longdesc is part of W3C's work to ensure that the Open Web Platform [2] is accessible to people with disabilities [3].
Based on this publication, the following changes will be implemented in the coming weeks:
* W3C validator [4] will validate longdesc as conforming HTML5.
* longdesc will be removed from the HTML obsolete features list.
Comments: Please send any comments on this Draft to the publicly archived HTML Accessibility Task Force mailing list:
public-html-a11y@w3.org
by 10 April 2013
Working Groups: HTML-longdesc was developed by the HTML Accessibility Task Force under the WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) and the HTML Working Group (HTML WG). [5]
About the URI: The first URI above goes to the latest version of the specification. The "dated" version of this Working Draft is: <http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-html-longdesc-20130312/> The difference between these URIs are explained in Referencing and Linking to WAI Guidelines and Technical Documents at: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/linking>
Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your comments.
Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible.
Regards,
~Shawn Henry, WAI Outreach
HTML Accessibility Task Force Co-Facilitators: Steve Faulkner, Charles McCathie-Neville, Janina Sajka
HTML WG Chairs: Paul Cotton, Sam Ruby, Maciej Stachowiak
PFWG Chair: Janina Sajka
W3C Staff: Judy Brewer, Michael Cooper, Philippe Le Hégaret, Michael Smith
[1] Blog about extension specifications <http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/09/getting_html5_to_recommendatio>
[2] Open Web Platform standards <http://www.w3.org/standards/>
[3] Accessibility - W3C <http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility>
[4] HTML Validator (W3C Markup Validation Service) <http://validator.w3.org/>
[5] HTML Accessibility Task Force <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/html-accessibility-tf>
W3C WAI PFWG <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/>
W3C HTML WG <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/>
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Shawn Lawton Henry
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
e-mail: shawn@w3.org
phone: +1.617.395.7664
about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
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