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2007

The longdesc lottery. Mark Pilgrim is now writing for the WHATWG blog. Here he makes the case for replacing the longdesc attribute with a better solution, based on ten years of developer ignorance and misuse. As always with that site, check the comments for a microcosm of the larger debate.

# 14th September 2007, 11:44 am / accessibility, html, html5, longdesc, mark-pilgrim, whatwg