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A tool to test web content for accessibility and 508 compliance.
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The longdesc attribute is deprecated #161

Closed ollie-iterators closed 1 year ago

ollie-iterators commented 1 year ago

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.

fstrr commented 1 year ago

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.

JohnCotterSSA commented 1 year ago

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.