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RE: alt text subtleties - D-link excursion

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From: Jamie Mackay
Date: Jul 17, 2001 4:40PM

Just extending Paul's comments about square brackets on 'D' links
(apologies for thread drift).
I have generally used both the longdesc tag and the 'D' tag for image
descriptions; when you use a screen reader that can recognise longdesc
(such as IBM Home Page Reader) then you end up with it reading out two
lots of description links - having square brackets around the 'D' helps
to un-murk this situation (and, of course, stops the dreaded consecutive
links error).
By the way, anyone out there in a position to judge how long it might be
until using 'longdesc' will be enough on its own? At the moment having
to use both is not ideal for anyone and is just the sort of thing to put
off over-worked webmasters having to confront the 'accessibility issue'
for the first time.
Cheers
Jamie Mackay
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
New Zealand
www.mch.govt.nz