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Bug 23293 - Require descriptions which are not whole documents to be well-formed fragments
Summary: Require descriptions which are not whole documents to be well-formed fragments
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML Image Description Extension (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: CR
Assignee: Charles McCathieNevile
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Keywords: a11y, LC
: 23292 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2013-09-19 15:01 UTC by Charles McCathieNevile
Modified: 2014-01-13 21:07 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Charles McCathieNevile 2013-09-19 15:01:06 UTC 
Andrew Kirkpatrick in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2013Aug/0069.html suggests the spec require that longdescs which represent part of a document, e.g. in a document containing several different descriptions, be well-formed fragments, and that user agents be required to use these.
Comment 1 Mark Sadecki 2013-09-22 17:59:49 UTC 
*** Bug 23292 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Mark Sadecki 2014-01-13 21:07:00 UTC 
Andrew,
Thanks for taking the time to consider longdesc in the context of specific WCAG techniques, specifically the behavior of user agents when a longdesc refers to a document fragment. The Task Force has intentionally refrained from requiring any specific behavior in this respect from user agents. There is a requirement in the document that authors SHOULD put descriptions in well-formed fragments (which may include an entire page). Because there is existing, and will likely continue to be new content that does not meet this requirement, we do not propose a corresponding requirement on user agents.