in-line :- On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 06:52, Caleb Eggensperger<[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd never heard of it, but from the first link you posted it sounds > like it's not used properly anyway, and I agree with that post's > conclusion that there must be a better option. > > What kind of browser support are you looking for anyway? It looks like > it's only useful to screen readers....
Its an HTML attribute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longdesc so its not just a screen reader issue. Granted, differently-abled people don't know that there is such an attribute, but then the whole ecosystem (browsers, web programmers and designers haven't supported the process ) and hence we are in the situation we are in. Please also see http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/LongdescRetention >> If Longdesc were to be expanded (and name changed?) to allow linking >> to the full image as well, it would certainly give a reason to support >> it. There is a tracker issue open for this on w3c org. http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/30 There seems to be some responses on something called ARIA-describeby as a solution but the presentation of the replies are so jumbled up, I cannot follow the thread and know what the conclusion drawn has been so far. :( <snipped> -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
