- From: Matthew Turvey <mcturvey@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 19:19:40 +0100
- To: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
- Cc: Jeanne Spellman <jeanne@w3.org>, "Richards, Jan" <jrichards@ocadu.ca>
On 16 July 2013 18:40, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote: > I have an additional suggestion that I believe would help the acceptance of this document within the general working group. Add an informative section detailing several of the many cases where it is inappropriate to use @longdesc. For example… > > 1. @longdesc is inappropriate when an EPUB footnote is sufficient. > 2. @longdesc is inappropriate for Math. Use MathML instead. > 3. @longdesc is inappropriate for SVG graphics. Make the SVG DOM accessible instead. > 4. @longdesc is inappropriate for graphics of tabular data. Use an accessible table instead. > > More examples at http://cookiecrook.com/longdesc/ > > These should probably be added to the WCAG 2.0 Techniques documents as well. I'd also add: 5. @longdesc is inappropriate when a normal link is sufficient. Example: <a href="descrip"><img src="pic" alt="*the purpose of the link*"></a> -Matt
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