Re: aria-describedat?

On Mar 14, 2:41 pm, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

Howdy,

FWIW, it can't hurt. I have actually discussed this with a few
developers who have the chops i lack to actually get something like
this in action, but as is often the case there is a time-factor.

In discussion with Dirk Ginader (Yahoo!), we had batted around the
idea of placing a visual indicator in the address-bar (similar to how
the Tails microformats plugin works, or when a page contains an RSS
feed), that would be the visual indicator that a longdesc'd image
exists on the page - this borrows on the TellMe More extension that
@chaals wrote for Chrome. Dirk had previously knocked together a
jQuery plugin on my urging that demonstrated a way of drawing back the
@longdesc content into the same page (using AJAX) - it can be found on
github (https://github.com/ginader/Accessible-Longdesc) and a demo is
here: http://blog.ginader.de/dev/jquery/longdesc/examples/webaim/index.php

>
> 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.

+1

JF