- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 11:11:30 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>
- cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Phill Jenkins wrote: >> I'm giving a talk on web accessibility shortly. I'd like to >> know the status of mainstream browser support for LONGDESC. > >IBM Home Pager Reader, although some don't consider it "main stream", it is >used by many sighted web developers to "see" the Longdesc as the "[image >description]". > >A free trial version is available from http://www.ibm.com/able/hpr.html >It will even speak with a British accent. British accent: very nice. If JAWS can get the longdesc when working with explorer then it might be available from the DOM. That would mean that a javascript extension to explorer should be able to get it too - if there isn't such a tool available, maybe someone can produce one. (This is the sort of thing that Jim Ley seems to be good at, so I hope if nobody else does he reads this message). Amaya is not, by any criteria I know of, a mainstream HTML browser. But it does support longdesc, although that isn't very cleaerly documented anywhere (ACTION chaals get longdesc suppport into the documentation). cheers Chaals
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