[html4all] Figure ideas (was: Article by Catherine: Feedback on accessibility concerns in HTML5)

[Leif Halvard Silli]

On 2007-09-22 18:18:20 +0200 zara <ecrire at catherine-roy.net> wrote:

[...]
> As to the issue of the code example provided not conforming to
> the draft or being slightly erroneous, I think it was simply an
> inattention error on the part of the person. [...]
>
> As to why "figure" was being discussed with regards to longdesc, I
> guess the simple answer is that some people are evidently not crazy
> about longdesc and it has been for the moment dropped from the draft
> and in light of some other people emitting worries in that regard,
> some other other people replied that "figure" might do the job and
> maybe even better, or ideas to that effect.
>
> As to whether the table included in the "figure" element example
> was meant to be exposed to graphical UA's, 
> [...] but from what I understood, I would say it was not. [...]

It looks as if what you - or that person - really was after was «a better ALT» - see the HTMLwg Wiki page about that subject <http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/ABetterAlt>. The idea of that page is basically to offer an, by default, hidden <ALT> element instead of the ALT attribute. An ALT element would probably be able to do some of what @LONGDESC does.
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leif halvard silli