excellent suggestion!! i have other plans for the page with the larger
image as far as a "description" goes, but the link text suggestion is
superb. i wanted a way to let screen readers know that there was a
description of the image for non-sighted, blind, whatever is politically
correct these days, available for accessibility.
dwain
On 2/2/08, Patrick H. Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> dwain wrote:
> > you are saying put the longdesc on the text rather than the image. i
> > will be adding text saying that if you click the image it will take you
> > to the longdesc and click the text link to take you to a larger version
> > of the picture.
>
> I'd posit that sighted users, when coming across a page of thumbnails,
> will still expect the thumbs to take them to the larger view, regardless
> of any text you put in anywhere else on the page.
>
> If I had to add long description, I'd include it on the actual page that
> shows the larger version of the painting - either as part of the text on
> the right itself, or as a clearly marked link underneath the large image
> ("text description of this painting" or similar).
>
> P
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