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From: Jukka Korpela
Date: Thu, May 09 2002 11:13PM
Subject: RE: caption?
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Steven Splinter wrote:
> One idea I've used is to put the image in a single-cell
> table, and then use the
> caption within the table cell. Would that meet accessibility?
An interesting idea. I'd say it's rather comparable to the method of using a
two-cell table, logically and accessibility-wise. There's typically some
difference in visual presentation.
I guess the most logical, or least illogical, approach would be to use
something like
<div class="fig">
<img src="..." alt="...">
<div class="caption">Your caption here</div>
</div>
and style sheets to suggest a visual (and, in theory, aural) presentation.
But styling probably doesn't work that well yet.
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From: Mark Newhouse
Date: Mon, May 13 2002 4:44PM
Subject: Re: caption?
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>> One idea I've used is to put the image in a single-cell
>> table, and then use the
>> caption within the table cell. Would that meet accessibility?
>
> An interesting idea. I'd say it's rather comparable to the method of using a
> two-cell table, logically and accessibility-wise. There's typically some
> difference in visual presentation.
>
> I guess the most logical, or least illogical, approach would be to use
> something like
>
> <div class="fig">
> <img src="..." alt="...">
> <div class="caption">Your caption here</div>
> </div>
>
> and style sheets to suggest a visual (and, in theory, aural) presentation.
> But styling probably doesn't work that well yet.
I've done something similar to the above for thumbnails and short captions.
I wrote it up here:
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/practicalcss/
Works in all 5+ browsers, and degrades decently (this is quite subjective)
in NN4.
Presumably the thumbnail/caption would link to the full image, which would
also contain descriptive text or D link or equivalent...
--Mark Newhouse
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