[html4all] Article by Catherine: Feedback on accessibility concerns in HTML5

[zara]

Joshua wrote:

> Interesting proposal. Is this along the lines of some
> possible uses of
> the <figure> or <object> elements? A closer
> association of the image and
> its alternate or long description would be a good
> thing IMO (in fact it
> could be that closer bindings with any
> element/attribute and their
> associated content is a good thing, especially if it
> give various user
> agents more control over how that content is
> rendered, however I am
> assuming that closer bindings can lead ultimately to
> this and I may be
> wrong). To get around the users  stated concerns
> about reading out the
> @longdesc contents (however it is bound to the
> element) by some user
> defined preference which could be set in the screen
> reader preference.


Yes, that is where the discussion had started to go but was interrupted because it was apparently getting too technical.

The proposed "figure" element[1] was offered as a possible solution because it could be more explicit as to its function compared to "object" (though discussions about that did not necessarily run their course either). A user did emit concerns about being able to shut on and off the long description associated to something like this but from what I understand from your post, it would be possible to solve that. I wonder however if AT would rapidly support something like this. From what I was told during the initial discussion, it took a while for JAWS, for example, to support longdesc.

Best regards,


Catherine
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[1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-figure



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Catherine Roy

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