- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:45:37 +1000
Ben Meadowcroft wrote: > Perhaps a better method would be using the longdesc attribute to associate a > caption with an image. > Specifically we could point the image to fragment within the current page > and give an explicit association in this manner. > > <img src="man.gif" alt="A Man" longdesc="#manCaption" /> > <p id="manCaption">A more full description of the image</p> I think accessibility experts would have serious issues with this. A caption doesn't even come close to being a good long description. See what Joe Clark has to say about writing good long descriptions. http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/Chapter06.html#h1-1715 -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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