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From: Vlad Alexander
Date: May 30, 2013 1:28PM

Jennifer Morrow from Mozilla writes: "After further looking into this, we've decided to support the longdesc attribute in Firefox."

For the entire post, please read:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id…4848#c59

This was a community effort and it was great to see so many participate either through voting for this bug, commenting on the bug report and on the blog, through tweeting/retweeting or contacting Mozilla directly. Some of the people who took the lead on this advocacy effort are still talking to Mozilla to make sure this feature gets implemented in a timely manner. Mozilla has opened a new bug for implementation of this feature, and if you would like to get updates, please add yourself as a CC on bug 877453 here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id‡7453

Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen and a big thanks to Laura Carlson ( https://twitter.com/laura_carlson ) for starting this campaign and inspiring others to join in.

Regards,
-Vlad