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Re: LongDesc for documents, not websites

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From: Will Grignon
Date: Apr 20, 2011 5:48AM

Why not create the master document and a description document? The blind
user can read the master and, when he/she encounters a described graphic,
ALT+TAB to the description document to get the full description, then
ALT+TAB back to the master to resume reading. I am a blind screen reader
user and it's a pain to jump to the back of a document to find an endnote
then jump back to where I had left off, but it is relatively easy to read a
master document, jump over to a secondary document, then jump back to the
master at the point I had left it to read the secondary document.