[Blindmath] Alt description and long description for images

[Richard Baldwin]

Never mind. I think I figured out where the alt and long description are
getting lost.

Thanks,
Dick Baldwin

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Richard Baldwin <baldwin at dickbaldwin.com>wrote:

> Hmmm Strange. When I hover my mouse over the flags on he duxbury site I
> don't see what you describe in either Google Chrome, Firefox, or IE.
>
> Can someone with Jaws or NVDA take a look at this?
>
> Thanks,
> Dick Baldwin
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:10 PM, George Bell <George at techno-vision.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> Hi Dick,
>>
>> Speaking as a sighted user, they don't seem to be appearing as I'd expect
>> when hovering the mouse over the images.
>>
>> The following is an example line from the main page here
>> http://www.duxburysystems.com.  You'll see a large selection of flags,
>> and if you hover your mouse over a flag, the Alt Text is displayed.
>>
>> <a href="default.asp?z=lv"><img src="flags/latvia.gif" alt="Latvian
>> translation" width="45" height="30" title="Latvian translation"></a>
>>
>> George Bell
>> UKAAF  (UK  Association for Accessible Formats)
>>
>> e-mail: georgebell at ukaaf.org
>> Web: http://www.ukaaf.org
>> Direct Tel: 0160 479 2777
>> Direct Fax: 0160 479 2726
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>> Richard Baldwin
>> Sent: 11 February 2013 20:47
>> To: BlindMath Mailing List
>> Subject: [Blindmath] Alt description and long description for images
>>
>> For the first time ever, I am attempting to put meaningful alt
>> descriptions and long descriptions on some images on a web page. However, I
>> have no way of knowing if it is working.
>>
>> If someone could examine the alt description and the long description of
>> the image at http://cnx.org/content/m44148/latest/#Image_1 and tell me
>> what you find there, that would be very helpful.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dick Baldwin
>>
>>
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Richard G. Baldwin (Dick Baldwin)
Home of Baldwin's on-line Java Tutorials
http://www.DickBaldwin.com

Object-Oriented OOP with Java
http://cnx.org/content/col11441/latest/

Professor of Computer Information Technology
Austin Community College
(512) 223-4758
mailto:Baldwin at DickBaldwin.com
http://www.austincc.edu/baldwin/