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From: Vlad Alexander
Date: Apr 3, 2013 8:28AM

Laura Carlson is organizing votes to get Firefox to support UI for longdesc. I thought I'd help out by sending out this post. If you could spare a few minutes to vote for this Firefox bug (requires a registration with Bugzilla) that would be great:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id…4848

There are 60+ votes already, many from our peers in the accessibility community. Laura has put in tremendous efforts over the past 2 years to have longdesc part of HTML5 spec and your votes can help transform a concept in a spec into a tangible product enhancement that actually helps people. FYI: Microsoft, Apple and Google have fixed accessibility bugs in the last year in great part due to public attention and votes.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
-Vlad