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Bug 16268 - [AAPI]: @longdesc is not described
Summary: [AAPI]: @longdesc is not described
Status: REOPENED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML a11y APIs (editor: Steve Faulkner, Cynthia Shelly) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Macintosh Mac System 9.x
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: steve faulkner
QA Contact: HTML a11y API spec bugbot
URL: http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-api-map/ra...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y, a11y_text-alt
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-03-08 05:12 UTC by Leif Halvard Silli
Modified: 2016-02-01 22:04 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Leif Halvard Silli 2012-03-08 05:12:19 UTC
"4. HTML attribute to Accessibility API State and Property Mapping Matrix

" Longdesc is not described. Please do.

* Note that you do describe <frame> and <frameset>, despite that they too are obsoleted in HTML5 http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-api-map/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#el-47
Comment 1 steve faulkner 2012-03-08 11:43:27 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> "4. HTML attribute to Accessibility API State and Property Mapping Matrix
> 
> " Longdesc is not described. Please do.
> 
> * Note that you do describe <frame> and <frameset>, despite that they too are
> obsoleted in HTML5
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-api-map/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#el-47

Hi leif, this was an oversight due to the attribute table being sourced from the the HTMl5 spec.
I have now added longdesc.
Comment 2 Leif Halvard Silli 2012-03-08 17:19:18 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)

> Hi leif, this was an oversight due to the attribute table being
> sourced from the the HTMl5 spec. I have now added longdesc.

Referring to our conversation on Twitter,
https://twitter.com/stevefaulkner/statuses/177775477753262080

could the text make clear that the MSAA mapping/implementatio is incorrect and misleading and unusable as a guide for understanding and implementing @longdesc?
Comment 3 steve faulkner 2012-03-09 07:33:31 UTC
bhl supplied pointer to firefox implementation:

I'd normally look at what Gecko has done as part of baking IA2 into MSAA:

   https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/accessible/src/html/nsHTMLImageAccessible.cpp

need to update IA2 to reflect this
Comment 4 Cynthia Shelly 2016-02-01 21:02:57 UTC
IA2 bug. I'm not the right owner.
Comment 5 Joseph Scheuhammer 2016-02-01 22:04:03 UTC
I *think* this is about the HTML-AAM, specifically the mapping entries for @longdesc:

http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/html-aam/html-aam.html#att-longdesc

I'm not the expert here, although it looks like the mappings are done.

Resetting the assignee to the default.