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Re: Longdesc in Images

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From: Tim Beadle
Date: Sep 25, 2006 2:30AM

On 24/09/06, Jorge Fernandes < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> A good example of this diference could be an institucional logo in a
> website:
>
> At homepage:
>
> <a href="description.htm"><img ... longdesc="description.htm /></a>
>
> At the others pages:
>
> <a href="index.htm"><img ... alt="Homepage" /></a>

Does a logo *need* a long description? I would have thought that alt
text would be sufficient.

Also, conventional behaviour is for the logo to link to the homepage
(as you have done on the other, non-home, pages). Usability best
practice says not to link to the current page, so I would think that
the best thing would be to have the logo without a link on the home
page.

Tim