WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

ALT tag vs. LONGDESC

for

From: Kevin Price
Date: Mar 7, 2002 1:12PM

The W3C guidelines don't make it clear to me when exactly to use an ALT tag
only or when to use the LONGDESC tag. It seems like there should be a
number of character limit for an ALT tag. Is there any rules that people
are using to determine whether LONGDESC should be used? It appears to me
that even when you use LONGDESC, an ALT tag should also be associated to
that graphic. (Especially because only the very latest browsers support
the LONGDESC tag)
thanks,

Kevin Price
Coordinator-Assistive Computing Resource Center (ACRC)
Academic Computing and Media
California State University, San Bernardino
5500 University Parkway / PL-002
San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397
909-880-5079 FAX 909-880-7075



---
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or view list archives,
visit http://www.webaim.org/discussion/


----
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or view list archives,
visit http://www.webaim.org/discussion/