- From: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:34:36 -0500
- To: "Gez Lemon" <gl@juicystudio.com>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Gez lemon wrote: <blockquote> I use the longdesc attribute to associate a block of text with an image: <p> <img src="..." alt="..." longdesc="#imgdesc"> </p> <p id="imgdesc"> Description of image here ... </p> </blockquote> This is a very elegant solution. But I just tried it in JAWS 5.10 and IE 6 (I know, I know...) and it didn't work: instead of actually looking for the description on the page, JAWS opened a new window and then claimed it couldn't find the file. JAWS default behavior with longdesc is as follows: It reads the alt attribute, then says "Press enter for long description." Pressing enter then opens a new window which displays the file specified in the longdesc attribute. Evidently this behavior is hardwired, and JAWS doesn't know what to do when the longdesc attribute points to an element on the current page. Does anyone know if Window-Eyes, HAL, or Home Page Reader can handle Gez/ solution properly? Or emacspeak, or gnopernicus... Or for that matter Mozilla or Opera? Thanks! John
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