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The longdesc attribute is deprecated

Open ollie-iterators opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

It says that in this url: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_img_longdesc.asp, that longdesc is not supported in the major browsers. Because of this, I think it can be removed from gANDI.

ollie-iterators avatar Sep 05 '22 16:09 ollie-iterators

longdesc does have some support in major browsers, but it's inconsistent. That said, and related to this, there is an issue and related pull request to remove the Using Longdesc technique from WCAG.

fstrr avatar Sep 07 '22 18:09 fstrr

We agree that it is no longer supported, however we think it is helpful to know about its presence while testing. Some AT may still support the legacy attribute.

JohnCotterSSA avatar Nov 16 '22 14:11 JohnCotterSSA