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Re: [office] Important question from Accessibility SC

  • 1.  Re: [office] Important question from Accessibility SC

    Posted 04-26-2006 16:03
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    Subject: Re: [office] Important question from Accessibility SC


    Good question. I'd be inclined to either create a new attribute or use 
    svg:desc. I wouldn't like using draw:name or office:name. That seems 
    like a misuse of those tags.
    
    How about two new tags: 'office:desc' and 'office:long-desc'? This idea 
    is inspired by:
    
    http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#image-text-equivalent
    http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#long-descriptions
    
    Cheers,
    Daniel.
    
    Nathaniel S Borenstein wrote:
    > 
    > The accessibility committee has a question that it wishes to pose to the 
    > full TC.
    > 
    > There are several places where ODF currently lacks a way to specify an 
    > alternative textual description of a non-textual object.  In such cases, 
    > we could either invent a new tag or reuse an existing tag in what seems 
    > (to us) to be a reasonable way.  In particular, we're wondering whether 
    > or not we can simply use draw:name, svg:desc, and office:name for such a 
    > purpose.  Would the TC recommend doing so, or would it be preferable for 
    > us to create a new tag such as svg:title?  Obviously either approach 
    > will work, but we aren't sure which is better.  All opinions are 
    > invited.  -- Nathaniel
    
    
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