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From: Chaals McCathie Nevile
Date: Wed, Aug 05 2015 6:00PM
Subject: longdesc or hidden div?
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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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