- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 14:07:23 -0400 (EDT)
- To: w3c-wai-wg@w3.org (WAI Working Group)
to follow up on what Dave Raggett said: > > I don't understand your comment. The proposed longdesc > attribute doesn't require changes to graphical browsers. This demonstrates that we need to baseline some concrete LONGDESC proposal including behavior. When I hear Jason White supporting LONGDESC, I believe he is talking about a feature where when the image is not displayed, the content of the resource pointed to by the LONGDESC is inlined in the space that would otherwise be filled by the image. A link-traversal and page-change is not desired to get to the verbal guide to the MAPped links. It wants to be automatic and inlined. That is why I asked earlier what the proposal is. The most beneficial version requires changes to graphical browsers to support users with graphical browsers and access devices acting on the output of the graphical browsers. If LONGDESC only generates a conditional _link_ to the mapped-links guide, I think some votes would change. -- Al Gilman
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