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Re: Comic #72: Alone In The Pitch Black Dark

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From: Ro
Date: Aug 16, 2010 4:27PM

Do you have to click on something? I'm not hearing a description. I
wonder if it's Voiceover not picking something up?

-Randi and Guide Dog Jayden

I'm not disabled, my eyes are.
http://raynaadi.blogspot.com/

On Aug 16, 2010, at 3:18 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>
> A recent CS Squirrel comic is humorous, and is also a great example
> of providing a long description for a complex image.
>
> The author provides a link to a transcript of the comic, which is
> associated with the image using the aria-describedby attribute. The
> author also uses the longdesc attribute to point to the URL with the
> transcript.
>
> Even funnier is that if you are sighted you'll notice that the comic
> image doesn't even show up on the screen, which is irony. Someone
> had to point this out to me.
>
> http://www.cssquirrel.com/comic/?comic=72
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