- From: David Murdoch <david.murdoch@clarifeye.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:25:35 -0000
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
>If it could, wouldn't it make life easier for designers? An alternative >text description of such things as help windows (or complex images like >maps) could be sent to the screen reader in place of the object. Could >Javascript be used to open a help window, or, alternatively, send some >text to the screen reader if one is detected? That is what longdesc and table summaries are for (for example), I do not know how many people actually include these now adays (not many from the pages I have been on lately). Screen readers will read out the table summaries to the user, though someone not using a screen reader will have no clue it is there. Using help pages is rarely needed imho unless you want to provide a list of hot keys you have set up for use by the sighted user, on that note please please do not put the hotkey in a title/alt tag it just irritates screen reader users since they then hear it all twice. BTW greetings to all, quite new to the list David
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