- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 10:14:30 +1000 (AEST)
- To: WAI Working Group <w3c-wai-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Jon Gunderson wrote: > Is the LONGDESC attribute a URL or an embedded text string? Or could it be > either and the the browser can figure it out? The value of ALT is a text string; the value of LONGDESC is an URL which refers to a detailed description of the image. It is anticipated that many images will not require long descriptions. However, for those which do, ALT and LONGDESC would be used together within the IMG start tag. It would be the responsibility of the HTML user agent, guided by any applicable styles, to render the LONGDESC attribute appropriately and to distinguish it from other links so that the user is aware that it refers to a long description. <img src="http://www.somewhere.org/figure1.png" alt="figure 1" longdesc="http://www.somewhere.org/figure1-description.html">
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