- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn@sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:06:43 +1000 (EST)
- To: WAI <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sue, I looked at the feedback page you posted. For this little black duck the jury is well and truly settled on D-links. Use 'em. The longer explanation: The D-link satisfies the problem that LONGDESC, while a fine idea, doesn't work in any browser. By the time it will work, people will be able to use (and should be using) OBJECT to include their non-text objects anyway, which will give them much greater possibilities to provide information. In the meantime, IF YOUR IMAGES (scripts, applets, etc) CONVEY IMPORTANT INFORMATION, USE A D-LINK. (It's a big IF. Nobody else can decide how to answer that for you - it's part of your own skills) If you don't want to clutter up your site with little D's, try the following: <img src="images/charles2.gif" TITLE="charles" ALT="Charles" LONGDESC="images/charles2.html" ALIGN="LEFT"><A HREF="images/charles2.html" TITLE="Description of Charles2.gif"><IMG SRC="images/dot.gif" ALT="D-link" TITLE="link to description of Charles2.gif (previous picture)"></A> which is taken from my personal page at http://www.srl.rmit.edu.au/charles The basic idea is to use a single white dot, with the ALT text making it clear that this is a D-link. (Unfortunately the big browsers are making ALT text harder to find. But there are lots of good browsers out there)
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