- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 15:25:25 -0000
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
"Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org> > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Phill Jenkins wrote: > > >> I'm giving a talk on web accessibility shortly. I'd like to > >> know the status of mainstream browser support for LONGDESC. > > > >IBM Home Pager Reader, although some don't consider it "main stream", it is > >used by many sighted web developers to "see" the Longdesc as the "[image > >description]". > > > >A free trial version is available from http://www.ibm.com/able/hpr.html > >It will even speak with a British accent. > > British accent: very nice. Well nicer than Australian :-) > That would mean that a javascript extension to > explorer should be able to get it too - if there isn't such a tool available, > maybe someone can produce one. (This is the sort of thing that Jim Ley seems > to be good at, so I hope if nobody else does he reads this message). Snufkin currently adds D-Links if there's a longdesc attribute, but Snufkin isn't really the sort of thing you'd want to use regularly. _IE_ bookmarklet to do the same: javascript:var wdi=document.images;for (var i=0;i<wdi.length;i++) { if (wdi[i].longdesc!=undefined && wdi[i].longdesc!='') wdi[i].insertAdjacentHTML('afterEnd','<A href="'+wdi[i].longdesc+'">D</A>'); } void 0 (for Mozilla you'll need to change the insertAdjacentHTML to DOM methods) http://jibbering.com/2002/1/imageslongdesc.html also has some thoughts on a script which helps visual users by using a visual tooltip with the link in if the longdesc is available. Jim.
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