Adding D-Links and Alt Tags

To add a d- link in Front Page 2000 or Notepad,

A d-link is a hyperlink which is placed just to the right of an image. The text of the hyperlink is a lower case "d". By placing it immediately after, or to the right of the image, screen reading software will announce the d-link immediately after reading the alt tag of the preceding image, and the user of screen reading software will know to press the enter key to move to the d-link.

D-links have the advantage of being available to all individuals who visit your web site. Longdesc links are only available to screen reading software, thus your sighted students would not have easy access to them.

Front Page does not offer a way to easily add d-links tags. It is necessary to directly edit the HTML code.

Open your document in Front Page.

In the normal view, single click on the image to highlight it.

Now change to the HTML code view by clicking on the HTML tag at the bottom of the page. This way, you'll be moved to the code for the image. You are going to edit the image tag. It is shown below in Notepad, but it works just the same in front page.

Add the alt tag and d link before the closing > of the image tags. In this case, the tag are:

alt="sand dollar" <a href="sanddollar.htm">d</a>
alt="brittle star." <a href="brittlestar.htm">d</a></p>

Save your document.

Now when you look at your document, you will see a lower case "d" to the right of each image. By clicking on this "d link" you will go to a page with more information about this image.

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