- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 09:03:54 -0600
- To: WAI Working Group <w3c-wai-wg@w3.org>
If the image is a <MAP> link would the recommendation be to put the text links in the long descriptions or to have the text links be part of the original document; or do both? Also if the LONGDESC is used for audio and video links there may well be a text description available in the source document, making the LONGDESC a target tag (see white house pages). Jon At 11:54 PM 7/24/97 -0500, you wrote: >I would not recommend putting all the long descriptions together on a page unless they are very carefully labelled. It is very confusing when you get there. Most people don't get that they should only read part of the page and then jump back. > >Putting each on its own page would be option 1 >Putting them all at the bottom (as an appendix if you will) is another. It allows access if you download the document but has the same problem cited above unless each paragraph is very carefully labeled. >Gregg > >-- ------------------------------ >Gregg C. Vanderheiden Ph.D. >Professor - Dept of Industrial Engineering >Director - Trace R & D Center >s-151 Waisman Center >University of Wisconsin- Madison 53705 >gv@trace.wisc.edu, WWW & FTP at Trace.Wisc.Edu >for a list of our Listserves send "index" to listproc@trace.wisc.edu > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jason White [SMTP:jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU] >Sent: Thursday, July 24, 1997 5:55 PM >To: WAI Working Group >Subject: RE: USEMAP > >On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: > >> The longdesc COULD point to text lower on the same page... or to a >> separate page. >> >This is correct. However, in most cases, a separate page would probably be >required, since presumably most users who do not wish to read the long >description would not appreciate its being included as part of the >document. Perhaps if it appeared at the end of the text, under its own >heading, those who chose not to read the description could readily ignore >it. One solution might be to create a separate document which contains >long descriptions of images that appear at a particular web site or in a >particular directory. Each such description could be named and referred to >in LONGDESC attributes by means of an URL fragment: >longdesc="http://www.somewhere.org/descriptions.html#description3" > > > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu Personal WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund Info Access WWW: http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
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