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From: Vlad Alexander
Date: Wed, Apr 03 2013 8:28AM
Subject: Support for longdesc
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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

From: Laura Carlson
Date: Mon, Apr 08 2013 11:15AM
Subject: Re: Support for longdesc
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Hi all,

On Apr 03 2013 Vlad Alexander wrote [1]:

> 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:

Many thanks, Vlad, for posting this [1].

It seems there is a typo in the link provided. The link to the bug is:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id…4848

Bugzilla isn't very user friendly and I have received some questions
regarding how to create a Bugzilla account and vote. I drafted the
following to help provide that information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/research/ld-moz-voting.html
I hope it helps.

Thank you for your consideration.

Best Regards,
Laura

[1] http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?threadX24

From: Laura Carlson
Date: Mon, Apr 08 2013 11:27AM
Subject: Re: Support for longdesc
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Hi again,

On 4/8/13, Laura Carlson < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> It seems there is a typo in the link provided. The link to the bug is:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id…4848

The link to the bug was mangled again [1]
Perhaps a tinyurl will work better.
http://tinyurl.com/dxz5pec

Thanks again.

Laura
[1] http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_message?id"671
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Laura L. Carlson