Re: aria-describedat?

Popular addons definitely get attention for in-product consideration.
Cheers,
D
On Mar 14, 2012 5:42 PM, "Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis" <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
>