RE: USEMAP

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
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>-----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"
>
>
>

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Received on Friday, 25 July 1997 10:06:16 UTC