RE: Longdesc attribute for images

Tina,

I think you may have slightly misunderstood the original email
from this thread. The problem is that, in theory, browsers should
give users a simple, easy, automatic way of accessing the page
referenced by the longdesc...without requiring them to jump through
hoops (as you say in your following email, having to go right-click
on an image - how do you do that on a text-only browser, for
instance -, selecting properties, etc). Browsers should have some
mechanism of offering the user a quick navigation widget to the
longdesc. At the moment, unless page authors include the [D] link
(which is, and always has been, a bit of a kludge) or use some
DOM javascript to automatically generate [D] links, the longdescs are
essentially useless.

Patrick
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Patrick H. Lauke
Webmaster / University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tina@greytower.net [mailto:tina@greytower.net]
> Sent: 18 June 2003 14:29
> To: Lauke PH
> Subject: Re: Longdesc attribute for images
> 
> 
> On 18 Jun, Lauke   PH wrote:
> 
> >>   May I take this opportunity to ask if someone could 
> point me to the
> >>   specification of "d-link"s ?
> > 
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#long-descriptions
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#def-d-link
> 
>   Thankyou. I had myself confused there for a moment.
> 
> 
> 
> >>   very nice indeed, even if the Mozilla crowd could include a
> >>   *clickable* link instead of just making it available.
> > 
> > Forgive the question, but...how exactly do you "use" it ?
> 
>   How I use the longdesc attribute ? I include it with the IMG tag so
>   that people with the need and interest can access a longer 
> description
>   of the image.
> 
>   Or did I misunderstand your question ?
> 
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Received on Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:39:18 UTC