Lynx currently has no support for @longdesc. @longdesc provides "link to long description (complements alt)". See: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes.html Example: <img alt="Chart fo the development" longdesc="description-of-chart" src=i.jpg >
Any chance that Lynx, with its history as a accessibility web browsers, could implement @longdesc support? I have a concrete proposal for how it should be implemented: The best approach seems to me to be to implement it as if the image is an image map, where the URL inside @longdesc represents the link of the image map. Thus, practically speaking, I would expect @longdesc to work just like the following image map example - which is an example that has been crafted solely in order to show one may mimic the @longdesc behavior by using a simple image map: [1] |1] http://malform.no/testing/longdesc/aria+a...@rel=longdesc.html One particular detail: For image maps, the link text is provided via the @alt attribute of the <area> element. However, for @longdesc, screenreaders such as the well known Jaws, offers a "hard coded" text. In Jaws's case, the hard coded text is "Press enter for long description". And hence the example [1] provides the same text as link text for the image map replication of the @longdesc. Whether LYnx should do the same, or if Lynx should simply present the address of the link as link text, is probably up for debate. Or a combination: Offer the a text, in combinatio with the URL. Something like this: Long description: http://example.com/long/desc.html The latter seems optimal to me. PS: I have also filed the same bug for Elinks. Text browsers have a pretty uniform implementation of image maps. And it would be nice if they also had a working, uniform implementation of @longdesc. The Elinks bug: http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=1104 -- leif halvard silli _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
