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HTML5 W3C

Long descriptions and political cartoons

One of the still open issues with HTML5 is the lack of a verbose descriptor for an image, since the longdesc attribute was made obsolete. The longdesc attribute used to take a URL to a separate page or page fragment that contained a long text description for a complex or highly nuanced image. Typically, the […]

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Critters

And now…the political cartoons

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. FiredUpMissouri has links to two different political cartoons related to the recent Proposition B legislative activity. I thought I would provide a long description for these cartoons for my friends using screen readers. The first cartoon is from RJ Matson for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It features a dog, standing in […]