Re: img alt text, links and titles

Forget to take your medicine again, Kynn?

Here is what I meant by my questions:

Which browsers or AT support longdesc and how do they indicate that a
longdesc is available? How does one follow the longdesc to the image
description?

I'm not sure how I could make them any clearer. Though the questions 
were posed in response to your post, they were posted to the list, not 
to you personally. The reason is simple: I don't know the answers and I 
think it is important to know. I can't evaluate how the presence of a 
longdesc description should be indicated until I know how longdesc is 
implemented.

To paraphrase Freud: Sometimes a question is just a question...

Charles F. Munat
Seattle, Washington


kynn-eda@idyllmtn.com wrote:

> Charles Munat wrote:
> 
>>kynn-eda@idyllmtn.com wrote:
>>
>>>Therefore, anything which has a longdesc SHOULD be explicitly
>>>identified as an image, and thus the user should expect to look for
>>>further description of that image via longdesc links.
>>>
> 
>>Which browsers or AT support longdesc and how do they indicate that a 
>>longdesc is available? How does one follow the longdesc to the image 
>>description?
>>
> 
> I'm not sure what you're getting at here.  Are you saying that longdesc
> attributes should not be used, because there is not AT support?  Or are
> you going to claim you are not asking leading questions, and you really
> do desire to know information on longdesc?
> 
> I guess mainly this post is about how I don't like Mr. Munat's method
> of attack and debate, rather than anything else.  Someone who is more
> expert in AT is free to answer the questions of why and how assistive
> technologies comply with the W3C HTML 4.01 (et al) specifications.
> 
> --Kynn
> 
> 
>

Received on Thursday, 17 January 2002 13:28:36 UTC