On 03/25/2011 10:34 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>
> So far I have seen no reason to believe that longdesc is going to be
> used in a much better way the next 10 years than it has the past 10
> years. If that's the case then we really aren't helping anyone. I'd
> like to actually make the web better.
In the original decision[1], the incorrect usages argument was found to
be weak. Specifically "no evidence was provided that it would be
difficult or impossible for user agents to identify and make good use of
correct usage." Any evidence that people have either way on this point
would be helpful.
More directly to Jonas's point above, I note that if one visits a site
that correctly uses longdesc and right-mouse-clicks on such an image
using a recent version of Opera one sees an option to obtain the Long
Description of the image (see attached image). Does this change things?
- Sam Ruby
[1]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Aug/att-0112/issue-30-decision.html
