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From: Khaleel Eksheir
Date: Apr 12, 2019 7:57AM

Hello,

I'm writing this email to ask about the use of "longdesc". Based on
W3Schools <https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_img_longdesc.asp>, "longdesc"
is not supported by HTML 5 and all browsers. I tested "longdesc" using JAWS
with Chrome, Firefox, and IE 11. It did not work with Chrome and Firefox.
It worked with IE 11 but was confusing. What would be the replacement? is
there a solution? Would a link tag <a> work?

Thank you,
Khaleel


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