David Dorward wrote:

On 2 Feb 2008, at 06:26, dwain wrote:

i was saddened by the "D" link being deprecated.

I'm not; as techniques go, it is ugly and confusing. Unless a user is aware of the convention, they are left wondering what a link labelled "d" means.

Absolutely. I'm puzzled that browsers themselves don't offer a native way of getting to the longdesc (unless there's AT running on top).
Incidentally, ages ago I made this small extension for Firefox
http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/55/

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