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Accessibility Tests Extended Descriptions: Extended description placed on a separate HTML file and connected with the image by using hyperlinks

Accessibility Tests Extended Descriptions
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table of contents
  1. Cover Page
  2. Introduction to Extended Descriptions
  3. Extended description using HTML details and summary
    1. Detection and utilization of details and summary elements
  4. Extended description placed on a separate HTML file and connected with the image by using hyperlinks
    1. Linking to a single extended description placed in a separate HTML file via text hyperlink

Extended description placed on a separate HTML file and connected with the image by using hyperlinks

Notes about techniques

In this chapter the extended description is placed at the end of the book as a single file with one description per file. It is expected that this approach will appeal to publishers that do not want the descriptions to impact the appearance of the content. The approaches have the lowest impact on the visual layout. The bar chart has a text link. A link back to the image is provided to take the reader back to the same location where they left off reading in the primary flow of content.

The test below refers to the bar chart image immediately following.

extdescription-020 Technique for linking to a single extended description placed in a separate HTML file via text hyperlinks

Check if activating the hyperlink placed under the image takes you to a separate HTML file with extended descriptions, and the back link there brings you back to the image.

This test passes if all the following steps are successful:

  • The link "Follow for extended description" is reported, and on activating, it takes the focus to the HTML file with the extended description. The precision of landing position on the HTML page does not matter because there is only one extended description on this file.
  • You can read the extended description
  • On activating the link "Navigate back to Bar Chart image" below the extended description, it takes the focus back to original position in this chapter.
Bar chart showing monthly and total visitors for the first quarter 2014 for sites 1 to 3
Example.com Site visitors Jan to March 2014
Follow for extended description

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