[whatwg] image captions

David Walbert dwalbert at learnnc.org
Wed Jun 28 17:02:52 PDT 2006


On Jun 28, 2006, at 7:45 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote:

> A caption doesn't even come close to being a good long description.

Agreed, and conversely, a literal description of the image makes a  
poor caption -- it would be redundant to anyone who can see the  
image. A good caption enhances the content of the image, usually by  
telling the reader/viewer/listener why the image was included in the  
page.


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