- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:58:34 +0100
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
I have been away for a few days and am playing catch up. I have some brief comments on @longdesc below. Because of poor support for @longdesc it just doesn't really work in practice. However in many ways it is a sound idea. > - Provide a link to the longdesc page with a normal text link. Have a > link that says "Text description of this image" is available on a > separate page. > - Make the complex image itself a link to the long description page. IMO, neither of these are ideal, they put a burden on the user and are just rather inelegant. > - Put the image description directly in the context of the document > where the image occurs. IMO a good approach, but not always do-able as there _may_ not be a suitable context for the description. A solution may be to try to improve both UA/Vendor support for @longdesc, so authors can add it to an image when they need to. They will not always need it so there won't always be a code bloat and the user won't have to wander off to find a separate page. Josh
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