- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:03:04 -0500
- To: A.Flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Cc: WAI Interest Group Emailing List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, WAI Guidelines List <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I also like the idea of functional ALT text, viz. "select a direction", combined with LONGDESC to describe the visual appearance. At least I like it in principle. I wonder if any screenreader or browser will actually read the LONGDESC? To test this I've added some tests to the page. Here's the page address and shortcuts to the tests. The top of the page is http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday/web_access/image_map.html The shortcuts are as follows. a second version of the image map with ALT text "Select a direction" and LONGDESC is "Antique Compass Dial" at http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday/web_access/image_map.html#test2 , I've also added a plain image, not an image map, with LONG DESC to that page http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday/web_access/image_map.html#test3 One last thing. Last time I tried this it seemed to matter if the image map was inside a table. So I have the same image map as 2 presented alone at http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday/web_access/image_map.html#test4 The table shouldn't make any difference. But who knows? Len At 12:32 PM 1/12/00 +0000, Alan J. Flavell wrote: > > "Select A Direction" > >Now, that seems an excellent solution, to me. As an ALT text, it >represents a functional _alternative_ to the original visually-based >design. Any reference to the visual appearance of the non-viewed >image, if required, would be better delegated to the TITLE and/or >LONGDESC attributes (traditionally: D-link). ------- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP, and Department of Electrical Engineering Temple University 423 Ritter Annex, Philadelphia, PA 19122 kasday@acm.org http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY)
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