Hi everyone, On 07.01.2015 12:19, I wrote: > Besides: It does give us a competitive advantage over other browsers in > the academic space and whereever other space longdesc may be used, or > start being used once it is officially sanctioned by the W3C. To reiterate: In certain areas like education in universities and schools, Longdesc is actually being used productively. I've talked to several people who are blind or visually impaired who use this daily to either eucate others to make their graphics accessible, or use such accessible graphics to advance their own studies.
The advantage we have in Firefox is that those blind or visually impaired people can tell their sighted counterparts, teachers or other students, to just right-click the image and see that the description those sighted folks wanted to provide, actually works, *without* using a screen reader. But they can use Firefox to check the validity of the accessibility they intended to put in for their blind or visually impaired comrades. So while this particular attribute is not widely used on the web -- in fact I don't remember if I ever encountered longdesc outside of Screen Reader web training pages --, it is very useful and used actively in certain corner areas of the web not everyone might regularly visit. Therefore, I vote for just leaving it as is and letting it ride the recommendation train to its destination. Marco _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
