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From: Cheryl Kirkpatrick
Date: Mon, Oct 22 2001 7:22AM
Subject: [D]
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I am teaching a workshop on accessibility and would like to show a
real-life example of a page that uses [D] as an alternate text
description. I know I have seen it but now I can't find one. Can anyone
give me a URL to a page that uses [D]?
Thanks!
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Cheryl Kirkpatrick
Web Administrator/
Information Technology Librarian
South Carolina State Library
http://www.state.sc.us/scsl/
Telephone: 803.734.5831


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From: Jim Blanton
Date: Mon, Oct 22 2001 7:33AM
Subject: Re: [D]
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Cheryl,
WGBH, the Boston PBS station uses it some. Didn't find it on their home
page, but it's used at http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/ .
jb
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SCETV Webmaster
Chair, SC Web Accessibility Workgroup
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From: Cheryl Kirkpatrick [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 9:19 AM
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Subject: [D]
I am teaching a workshop on accessibility and would like to show a
real-life example of a page that uses [D] as an alternate text
description. I know I have seen it but now I can't find one. Can anyone
give me a URL to a page that uses [D]?
Thanks!
--
Cheryl Kirkpatrick
Web Administrator/
Information Technology Librarian
South Carolina State Library
http://www.state.sc.us/scsl/
Telephone: 803.734.5831


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From: Kerri Hicks
Date: Mon, Oct 22 2001 7:35AM
Subject: Re: [D]
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Here are a couple...
http://www.cast.org/udl/index.cfm?i=6
http://www.cast.org/udl/index.cfm?i=7
At 09:18 AM 10/22/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I am teaching a workshop on accessibility and would like to show a
>real-life example of a page that uses [D] as an alternate text
>description. I know I have seen it but now I can't find one. Can anyone
>give me a URL to a page that uses [D]?
>
>Thanks!
>--
>Cheryl Kirkpatrick
>Web Administrator/
>Information Technology Librarian
>South Carolina State Library
>http://www.state.sc.us/scsl/
>Telephone: 803.734.5831
>
>
>
>
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From: Andew Kirkpatrick
Date: Mon, Oct 22 2001 7:44AM
Subject: Re: [D]
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Here's a couple:
http://ncam.wgbh.org/cdrom/guideline/access_issues.html
http://www.trace.wisc.edu/ -- they use an image of a "D", with alt text.

On 10/22/01 9:18 AM, Cheryl Kirkpatrick ( = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = )
wrote:
> I am teaching a workshop on accessibility and would like to show a
> real-life example of a page that uses [D] as an alternate text
> description. I know I have seen it but now I can't find one. Can anyone
> give me a URL to a page that uses [D]?
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Cheryl Kirkpatrick
> Web Administrator/
> Information Technology Librarian
> South Carolina State Library
> http://www.state.sc.us/scsl/
> Telephone: 803.734.5831
>
>
>
>
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From: Anitra Pavka
Date: Mon, Oct 22 2001 8:19AM
Subject: Re: [D]
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From my experience, I found that few sites use d links, and the ones
that do, use them inconsistently.
The following site has what I consider to be the typical approach:
http://www.sfmuni.com/absite/webacces.htm#hearing The link is located to
the right of the image. The description page provides a one or two line
explanation of the page's purpose, (for those who stumble across the page
and aren't familiar with what a d link is). Then, it provides the
description of the image.
In this example, the d link is included with the text which references
the graphic, instead of being placed beside the graphic, itself:
http://orbitaccess.com/presidential/body6.html
Then there are sites that list all of the d linked text on the same
page. In the case of the WGBH site, the description page covers all of the
images together and provides the links to their respective pages:
http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/ On the blrry.com accessibility page, the d link
jumps to the part of the description page that has the description for the
specific image: http://www.blrry.com/accessible/ However, I still think
this might be confusing to users when they start getting descriptions for
other images, with little warning.
Is there any consensus on how to implement d links? Any thoughts on
what is the most usable method? For example, would it be useful to provide
navigation on the d link description page?

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From: Cheryl Kirkpatrick
Date: Mon, Oct 22 2001 9:29AM
Subject: Re: [D]
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Thank you to everyone who sent examples of the D- link. They will be a great
help!
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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Wed, Oct 24 2001 10:47AM
Subject: RE: [D]
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Cheryl,
Here is one:
http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/design/design-images-long.html
Jon

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Cheryl Kirkpatrick wrote:
> I am teaching a workshop on accessibility and would like to show a
> real-life example of a page that uses [D] as an alternate text
> description. I know I have seen it but now I can't find one. Can anyone
> give me a URL to a page that uses [D]?
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Cheryl Kirkpatrick
> Web Administrator/
> Information Technology Librarian
> South Carolina State Library
> http://www.state.sc.us/scsl/
> Telephone: 803.734.5831
>
>
>
>
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