- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <po@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:56:11 -0500
- To: "'GL - WAI Guidelines WG'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Last month there was a meeting of the Chairs of the different working groups ( GL, AU, UA, PF etc) to figure out what the best approach might be for the Longdesc D-link discussion. The goal is to figure out how to coordinate the Guidelines for Page Authors, the guidelines for browsers and the guidelines for Tools. What we came up with as a conclusion to bring back to our respective groups was 1) the recommendation should be to use LONGDESC always. 2) since LONGDESC doesn't work now - we should recommend they also use D-LINK for the time being. (or hidden D-links where an invisible gif is given "D-Link" as the alt and links to the longdescription) The reason we didn't recommend using D-Link as the primary and long term solution is 1) It cannot be hidden and many sites will not want to use it for that reason. 2) Longdesc can have the future potential of allowing the User to cause the Longdesc's to be visible or not. 3) UA group said that browser mfgrs would not be receptive to trying to hide D-Links 4) We can work on proxies and plug in solutions to adding a Longdesc exposing function to old browsers. In short, the conclusion we came to after long discussion was that D-Link is not a good long term solution where LONGDESC is. - and there are ways to make LONGDESC a better short term solution. This is a short synopsis of a long description. If this isn't clear I'll try to write a longer description. We are interested in your thoughts and discussion. Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Human Factors Dept of Ind. Engr. - U of Wis. Director - Trace R & D Center Gv@trace.wisc.edu, http://trace.wisc.edu/ FAX 608/262-8848 For a list of our listserves send "lists" to listproc@trace.wisc.edu
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