@longdesc in HTML5
Monday, 23 August 2010
Hi everyone, Thanks for your thoughtful replies. @Laura: Many thanks for the useful @longdesc example. I will try to gather more examples of @longdesc in the wild - that would be useful. @Leif: Thanks for your comment. @Mattur:@longdesc is not perfect, but it has potential to be modified, its implementation in AT improved etc but we do need to provide use cases etc. It is preferable to some other solutions as it is native to the HTML markup language. As Laura C, then goes to point out via the implementation Opera have - it doesn't have to be an inelegant solution. The point is (for me) that a long descriptor that can reference a URI is needed - how it is implemented is a user agent issue that needs work.
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