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Comment LC-2789

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Commenter: Guy Moreau <gmyx@gpws.ca>

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[Free text description]Document as a wholeHTML5 Image Description Extension Abstract This specification defines a longdesc attribute to... Status of This Document This section describes the status o... Table of Contents Introduction 1. Conformance 1.1 Depende... Introduction HTML 4 provided a longdesc attribute for the i... 1. Conformance As well as sections marked as non-normative,... 1.1 Dependencies and definitions The IDL fragments in this... 2. Use Cases and Requirements There are many ways users can... Use Cases Requirements for an Image Description functionality 3. The longdesc attribute 3.0 Implementation 3.0.1 Authors... 3.0 Implementation 3.0.1 Authors and Conformance checkers Zero or one longdesc attributes may be added to any img ele... 3.0.2 Authors 3.0.3 User Agents 3.1 Extension to the HTMLImageElement interface partial in... partial interface HTMLImageElement { attribute... 3.1.1 Attribute longdesc of type DOMString The longdesc I... longdesc of type DOMString longdesc A. Acknowledgements Thanks to the HTML Working Group of the... B. References B.1 Normative references [HTML5] Robin Berj... B.1 Normative references [HTML5] Robin Berjon et. al., eds... [HTML5] [RFC2119] [WEBIDL] B.2 Informative references [ATAGB3] Jutta Treviranus et. a... [ATAGB3] [WCAG] [UAAG] C. Change History (This section is not normative) Since the...
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open proposal pending resolved_yes resolved_no resolved_partial other assigned to Nobody Allan, Jim Bolter, David Brewer, Judy Cain, Sally Cooper, Michael Cotton, Paul Diggs, Joanmarie EVAIN, Jean-Pierre Faulkner, Steve Foliot, John Hickson, Ian Kardell, Brian Kiss, Jason Kobayashi, Masatomo Le Hégaret, Philippe Lund, Bob MacDonald, David Mann, Jatinder McCathie Nevile, Charles O'Connor, Joseph Karr Quin, Liam Ruby, Sam Schnabel, Stefan Taylor, Suzanne Watson, Mark

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Comment:

In my opinion, 3.0.3 User Agents (UAs) is deficient. While it requires
UAs to make the link available, it arguably does not require anything
more than access to the source code.



My rational is that access to the source code is a regular user
interface. Access to source code is provided in most if not all UAs. The
word 'available' does not specify what we can do with the link or how we
use it.



As a result of using the word 'available', I feel there is nothing in
3.0.3 that would compel UAs to make easy access to longdesc links
possible. I feel it needs to be more prescriptive to UAs that everyone
should benefit from longdescs.



I am suggesting a change or addition:

"If the longdesc value is valid, User agents must make the link
actionable or able to be activated to all users through the regular user
interface(s) similar to regular links."



Choose the wording the best describes how a regular link is activated.



A Non-normative example: Add to the context menu of the image a 'Go to
long description' menu item.



I hope my opinion is clear and my goal is entice UAs to make longdesc
readily available to all users. I also hope that you agree with me.


Thank you.
Guy Moreau
@gmyxgpws (twitter)

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WG Notes: Chaals has sent a reply that attempts to close this issue: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2013Jul/0043.html

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