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RE: Longdesc not working

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From: HAA
Date: Jul 13, 2005 6:37AM

The link goes to a page which describes the image, which can be brief or
long, depending on what the image is.

At 13:29 13/07/2005, Robinson, Norman B - Washington, DC wrote:

>In case it is of use to you, there are add-ons to the browser that will
>allow you to view the longdesc without resorting to code reviews:
>
>https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&v
>ersion=1.0&os=Windows&id=273 for Firefox
>http://www.hackcraft.net/longdesclink/default.asp for Internet Explorer
>
>That said, although we do use longdesc here, and more importantly the
>information can be accessed using a screen reader, I find it to be more
>useful to simply link to a detailed description of the complex visual
>data. The complex image gets a link to it's own web page describing the
>content.
>
>Regards,
>
>Norman
>
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