- From: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 08:49:42 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Clearly I should have read the spec again. I had a misunderstanding (well a lack of understanding because I had not refreshed myself on that attribute). longdesc isn't a datastore, it's a hyperlink. Orion Adrian On 6/6/05, David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 08:39:32AM -0400, Orion Adrian wrote: > > > Would it be alright to have an element in the page that had a style > > that was display: none but otherwise there? > > If the user can't read it, then it isn't very accessible is it? > > (Noting that long descriptions of images are useful to perfectly > sighted users who have images off but CSS on, and for users who have > trouble making out the details of the image but can turn their font > size up a lot to make out text, and that plenty of people with vision > related handicaps use screen readers (rather then true aural browsers) > which don't read text which isn't displayed), and etc etc etc). > > -- > David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk > > >
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