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Re: alt text and captions

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Feb 5, 2004 6:10PM

Another possibility to consider is that it may be worthwhile to provide some
sort of image identifier in the alt text. If people are likely to be
discussing the page contents, they might refer to the images in the
discussion. The screen reader user would not have the same context clues as
the sighted user in this case so it could be worthwhile to mark the image
alt as (for example) "figure 1" and then the caption appearing after the
image could be "figure 1: net gain in productivity" (and in this case
there'd be a need for a longdesc also...).

AWK

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