Re: [orca-list] Orca non-text image links in FireFox 3.0

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi:

Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> Hi,
> Wouldn't it be practical to have some of this info spoken automagically
> when encountering an image link, for example the alt-text of the image
> if it exists and else, fall back to announcing the address of where the
> image points to, maybe shortened to a relative url like so:
> /orca/download.html, or something like that?

This is very close to what Orca attempts to do.  :-)  Orca is actually 
bit more aggressive in shortening the URL name: it attempts to get the 
last 'wordish' type thing in the URL, stripping off stuff things 
including and after '.' '?' and '#' so as to avoid hideously long URLs.

Will