- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:06:48 -0700
- To: "Gerald G. Weichbrodt" <gerald.g.weichbrodt@ived.gm.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 4:48 PM -0400 5/03/2000, Gerald G. Weichbrodt wrote: >Hi all. Is it generally considered bad HTML form to have a hypertext link >in a document that goes right to an image? It seems to me that such links >generally go to an image that's complex enough that the author intended to >fill the whole screen with it, and yet I can't think how one would provide a >text-accessible description for such an image if the image isn't contained >in anything. Is this a reasonable way to think about this issue? Yes, a "raw image" linked from a page has accessibility problems; if you create even a minimal HTML page "wrapper" around it, you can add alternative text and other information. -- -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/
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