- From: Jukka Korpela <jukka.korpela@tieke.fi>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:05:02 +0300
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
goliver@accease.com wrote: > Anyone ever felt compelled to use the longdesc > attribute for an image used as a link? If I ever felt _compelled_ to use the longdesc attribute, I would _know_ that this is not the place to use it! The point is that since browser support is, eh, how would I put it, limited, one shouldn't _rely_ on the longdesc attribute, now or in the next few years. If the user needs to be able to access a long description of the image, the best way is to write a normal link to the description, in a manner that makes it fairly obvious what it is. For example, you could put a caption text below the image and make it a link, or you could explicitly write "<p>(There is also a <a href="...">textual description of our organization</a> available.)</p>", or you could, if you prefer, write a "D link". Having done that, you could additionally use a longdesc attribute. -- Jukka Korpela TIEKE Tietoyhteiskunnan kehittämiskeskus ry Finnish Information Society Development Centre Salomonkatu 17 A, 10th floor, FIN - 00100 HELSINKI, FINLAND Phone: +358 9 4763 0397 Fax: +358 9 4763 0399 http://www.tieke.fi jukka.korpela@tieke.fi
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