- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:51:47 +0100
- To: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- CC: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, public-html@w3.org
Leif Halvard Silli On 09-10-30 13.30:
> Joshue O Connor On 09-10-30 12.24:
[...]
> The purpose of ARIA seems to me to be to let the UA "compute" the
> A11Y layer on behalf of the author and the user. Whereas @longdesc
> as well as "normal fallback" (such as @alt content and the
> fallback of <object>) are "real" fallback that relies on regular
> hyper text.
Therefore it seems more logical to me to include @longdesc into
ARIA than to introduce aria-link.
Introducing longdesc into ARIA *and* make longdesc do - in ARIA -
whatever you envision that ARIA-link could do, would a) increase
the take up of longdesc, and b) be backward compatible and
un-confusing.
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leif halvard silli
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