- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:51:19 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 05:35:23AM -0500, Matthew J. Giustino wrote: > Lets say for that the ( screen reader ) user did in fact set the > screen reader settings to NOT announce a link "title". I would > argue that the user turned off the title announcement setting for a > reason, why then should they be forced to listen to a "longdesc" ? It was my understanding[1] that screen readers supporting longdesc would (if suitablely configured) inform the user that such a description existed and allow them to access it by pressing a key (spacebar in JAWS IIRC). It would be, IMO, very poor usability to automatically switch to a different document and start describing an image in what could be many paragraphs of detail. [1] I'm remembering this from a conversation quite some time ago, so please forgive (and correct) any mistakes I might make. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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