- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 17:41:46 +1100 (AEDT)
- To: HTML Guidelines Working Group <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Another purpose of adding LONGDESC to FRAME was to allow a long description to be provided where the content of the frame, designated by the SRC attribute, is either an image or another non-textual resource. Under such circumstances, instead of using SRC in the frame itself to refer to the image, authors are supposed to provide a "wrapper page", that is an HTML document which contains nothing other than an IMG or OBJECT element, including the necessary textual alternative. However, recognising that this is a cumbersome approach which some authors may not be inclined to follow, LONGDESC has been added to FRAME and IFRAME. Thus, the long description of the non-textual resource referred to by the SRC attribute can be associated with the frame itself. Also, LONGDESC enables a more detailed description to be given, where necessary, of the nature of the frame's content (where this can not be conveyed in the TITLE attribute).
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