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Re: Longdesc not working

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Jul 13, 2005 3:34AM

> I'm having difficulties in getting the longdesc working in any browser.
> Below is an example of what I have got at the moment. Any suggestions as to
> what is wrong (or where to go to find out) very much appreciated.
>
> <img src="graphics_other/journal25_silver.jpg" alt=" the 25th Journal"
> longdesc="d_files/journal25.htm"> <a href="d_files/journal25.htm"
> target="_blank">d</a></div>

Longdesc is not supported by most of the current browsers. It is by
assistive technology though. You are doing the right thing, although
the D link is considered by some to be superfluous.

What do you have in journal25? Longdesc is only needed if the image
has a lot of complex data, like a graph, for normal images it might be
more usable for everyone to have a caption instead underneath the
image.

http://www.webaim.org/techniques/images/6


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