Alt? Longdesc? Title? What goes where, especially for image-heavy sites?

Question

So I\'ve been trying to make my site as accessible as possible (for non-JavaScript users, web crawlers, screen readers, etc), and I hit a large snag.

The site I\'m d

Answer 1

I think adding in descriptive text in a

is a good idea. There is of course the problem with browser support, this should be able to be addressed with CSS:

figcaption { display: block; }

You could then hide this text by default figcaption { display: none; } and include a link somewhere that will refresh the page with the captions displayed through an alternative style - figcaption { display: block; }

This option then eliminates the need for javascript solutions and only gives captions to those that specifically request them.

You could maybe set this up with a little bit of php:

HTML Link - Show captions

This is completely off the top of my head :) Let me know if I can better explain anything.