- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 22:25:25 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 06:26 PM 12/03/98 -0800, Charles (Chuck) Oppermann wrote: >This seems silly to me – the purpose of LONGDESC is to provide a place for >HTML markup. Both FRAMESET and OBJECT allow you to put as much markup in >them as you want. As does IFRAME, but it has a LONGDESC attribute. >Thus, no need for LONGDESC. That depends on what the purpose of LONGDESC really is. To me, LONGDESC for IMG is a long description of the image--a nice implementation of the "D-link". This is very different than with the OBJECT or IFRAME element, where the element content provides a *replacement* (not a description) of the object or inline frame. I don't see the point to a LONGDESC attribute on FRAMESET. The TITLE attribute on FRAMEs should be sufficient to give the contextual relationship among the frames. If the relationship cannot be expressed in a few plain text words, then I suspect it's too complicated for any user, sighted or otherwise. If LONGDESC for IMG is indeed a long description of the image, as I believe it should be, then OBJECT should also have a LONGDESC attribute--provided we accept that the content of OBJECT is a replacement rather than a description, which is really the only sensible way to interpret an OBJECT within an OBJECT. -- Liam Quinn Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/
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