Re: img::longdesc: must it be a separate page?

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
> 
> 
>

Received on Monday, 6 June 2005 12:49:43 UTC