Re: aria-describedat?

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:17 PM, david bolter <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm right here :)
>
> Did anyone ever write an addon? Should be straightforward and would help
> move forward.

Well, I've linked to the addon that Charles wrote for Opera to give
some idea of what I have in mind.

Patrick Lauke wrote a longdesc addon that just adds a context menu
action a million years ago:

   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/longdesc/

I've toyed with the idea of writing an addon, but I'm not entirely
clear if it would move things forward or not. Patrick's attempt all
those years ago doesn't seem to have helped much. In particular, I'm
worried that the existence of an addon gives the impression that this
functionality does not need to built in to browsers so as to be
available at the point of use.

Do you really think putting together a new addon would help?

At the very least, I should imagine anyone putting effort into this
would want some sort of buy-in from Firefox gatekeepers that some sort
of built-in UI might be appropriate further down the line.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis