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Re: CSS Photo Shuffler Accessibility

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From: Stephanie Leary
Date: Nov 13, 2006 1:20PM

Keith Parks wrote:
>> The slow fading isn't a problem,
>>
>> What are problems is the lack of viable alt attributes describing each
>> image.
>
> Couldn't you get around that by using the "longdescr" link attribute
> as part of the img tag?

As written, the example sets the photos as background images on a div. Only
the first image in the sequence actually has an img tag.

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Stephanie Leary
Web Communications Specialist
Texas A&M University System
http://tamus.edu