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Re: HTML5 Image Description Extension (longdesc) is Proposed Recommendation

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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Dec 8, 2014 9:07AM

Jonathan wrote:
"Could PDF attachments be used as a short-term solution until we standardize
on something better?"

We still end up with many pieces for what should be a self-contained PDF
file. With large websites (thousands and millions of pages and documents,
such as with government agencies), management of all these pieces is a
nightmare and sooner or later, a piece or two will become disassociated from
the main PDF. End up with a broken PDF that's no longer fully accessible
because its longdesc is now missing.

We've tried similar solutions several times and it just doesn't work after a
year or two; management of that type of system of multiple data files is
fine in theory but fails in the reality of an ordinary workplace. There's
too much to keep track of!

-BJC
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