- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:38:21 -0500 (EST)
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@reef.com>
- cc: Chuck Letourneau <cpl@starlingweb.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
It is also easy in horrid HTML using a sed script or similar. And it can probaby be done as a javascript extension in browsers. Find the image, find the attribute value, add a link to the value of the longdesc attribute. Charles McCN On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Kynn Bartlett wrote: At 01:33 PM 2/20/2001, Chuck Letourneau wrote: >3) No current release of screen-reader (or Web page reader) exposes the >"longdesc" URL. It should be noted that it would be relatively trivial to make a proxy server which exposes longdesc appropriately for users who need it. So the fact that longdesc is not CURRENTLY widely supported should not be a disincentive to doing this. It's even easier to do this if you're serving up XHTML pages; just run a simple XSLT to convert <img longdesc="url" .../> to <img .../> [<a href="url">longer description</a>]. --Kynn -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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