Adding Longdesc Tags

To add a long description tag in Front Page 2000 or Notepad,

Longdesc links are only available to screen reading software, thus your sighted students would not have easy access to them. D-links are available to everyone who visit your web site.

Front Page does not offer a way to easily add longdesc 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 and longdesc tags before the closing > of the image tags. In this case, the tag are:

alt="Sand dollar." longdesc="sanddollar.htm"
alt="brittle star." longdesc="brittlestar.htm"

Save your document.

You will not see any visible changes to your document, with the exception of the alt tags, which will now show up when you move your mouse cursor over an image.

When a person reads this web page with screen reader technology, they will hear the filename of the longdesc file.

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