https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26066
Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikib...@gmail.com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |WONTFIX
--- Comment #3 from Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikib...@gmail.com> 2010-11-23
16:44:55 UTC ---
HTML5 has made longdesc obsolete and non-conforming:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/obsolete.html#attr-iframe-longdesc
The HTML Working Group at the W3C considered the argument according to its
Decision Process. After reviewing the evidence presented, the chairs concluded
that longdesc has few good uses and is poorly implemented in practice, so it
should not be made conforming again:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Aug/att-0112/issue-30-decision.html
We intend to output valid HTML5 moving forward, so we should not support this
unless there's a good reason. In reality, given the state of UA support for
longdesc, there is no good reason, so I'm marking WONTFIX.
If you have specific examples of assistive technology that would benefit
significantly from longdesc use in some cases, please present that evidence and
reopen the bug. Note that I'm *not* asking for hypotheticals here, I'm asking
for a situation in which a significant number of disabled users will
*demonstrably* (not just conceivably) benefit from longdesc use. In the
absence of such evidence, I don't think there's any reason to allow it.
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