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From: Marek Prokop
Date: Fri, Nov 01 2002 9:06AM
Subject: RE: IMAGE OF TABLE LINKED TO DESCRIPTIVE FILE
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Laurie Davis-Covin [SMTP: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] wrote:
> Someone asked me - if in lieu of inserting
> a descriptive link before their simple data
> table, which is a gif file,...

Well, a gif file is an image, definitely not a data table :-)

To provide an accessible alternative, you would have to link to
a real table, but wouldn't be then easier to replace the gif
with that table?

Best,

Marek Prokop



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From: Laurie Davis-Covin
Date: Fri, Nov 01 2002 9:28AM
Subject: RE: IMAGE OF TABLE LINKED TO DESCRIPTIVE FILE
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yep... would be. Thanks, Marek!

At 04:50 PM 11/1/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Laurie Davis-Covin [SMTP: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] wrote:
> > Someone asked me - if in lieu of inserting
> > a descriptive link before their simple data
> > table, which is a gif file,...
>
>Well, a gif file is an image, definitely not a data table :-)
>
>To provide an accessible alternative, you would have to link to
>a real table, but wouldn't be then easier to replace the gif
>with that table?
>
>Best,
>
>Marek Prokop
>
>
>
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