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From: Chaals McCathie Nevile
Date: Aug 5, 2015 6:00PM

On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 14:14:11 +0200, Jonathan Avila
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> I've been wondering about whether a hidden div following a complex image
> is better than a longdesc.

It isn't, because people who want to find it can't.

> It's my understanding that in HTML5 longdesc can reference a a page
> fragment within the current document. So I'm not sure why you could not
> use both longdesc and Aria-describedby.

you can.

Just please don't *hide* stuff, as if people either have screen readers or
don't care about the description...

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