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RE: Longdesc in Images

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From: Steve Robillard
Date: Sep 24, 2006 3:10PM

Jorge,

What happens when you are trying to use the image to link to something other
than the longdesc?

Steve

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Subject: [WebAIM] Longdesc in Images

Hi,

I'm a young guy at WebAIM Forum. I really appreciate the discussions.
I work in Lisbon, Portugal, in the field of Web Accessibility at the
Ministry of Science & Technology. Since August 1999 that Portugal have
legislation about Web Accessibility applied to Public Administration.

More recently I bought the "The WebAIM guide to Web Accessibility Suite". Is
a great content! congratulations to WebAIM team. I recommend it :)

This tutorial recommend 4 Methods of Providing a Long Description:
- In the context of the document itself;
- A normal text link;
- The longdesc attribute;
- "D" links.

I'd like to know your opinion about a 5th possibility:
- the image is a link to it's description.

In code, I mean:

<a href="description.htm" title="Description of ..."><img src="..."
alt="short description, <= 80 chars according with Cynthia Says Report :) "
/></a>

What do you think? Semantically seems me adequate: a description is a closer
view.

Like the methods listed above are ordered, what could be the order of this
"solution"? Or isn't either a "solution"...

Kind Regards, Jorge Fernandes

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