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Sunday, 22 August 2010

Use longdesc. The main effect of using longdesc at the current time is you will block people from being able to access the content, including some, possibly most, AT users. That's the opposite of what accessibility is supposed to be about. The first chart has a longdesc If you had used a normal link on that image, or put the content in-page, like the RNIB and WebAim recommend, you would have made the long description accessible to everyone. Instead you deliberately chose a technique that makes the long description inaccessible to nearly everyone. This is not accessibility, it's accessibility theatre.