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Re: Longdesc not working

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jul 13, 2005 6:29AM

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> The longdesc attribute is basically just a theoretical idea (and a wrong
> one at that) that never caught fire.

Although I find the attribute quite useless, it's still worth mentioning
though that screenreaders such as JAWS take advantage of it and allow
the user access to the linked long description when the focus reaches
said image.

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Patrick H. Lauke
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