Longdesc alternatives in HTML5

This page is intended to be a resource documenting alternatives (hopefully better alternatives) to longdesc in HTML 5. It is a work-in-progress and I will link example content below as I create it. If you have examples you'd like to contribute, please email me.

For more information or background, please refer to the thread on the W3C mailing list archives.

Recommended Approaches

Other examples that are known to work today

Examples that are valid in HTML5, but are generally unsupported

This page was last updated 13 August 2015.