Create Alt Text with Netscape Composer

To create alt text:

1. Insert the image (or click the right mouse button on a pre-existing image and select Image Properties...).
2. Click the Alt .Text/LowRes... button.
3. Type a meaningful text equivalent in the Alternate text box. (If an image is a bullet, type * or -)
4. Click the OK button.
5. Click the OK button.
   
   

Note: If an image is purely decorative and conveys no information (for example, a line divider or spacer graphic), edit the HTML code directly.

1. Select the Tools menu, then HTML Tools, then Edit HTML Source... to open the Composer HTML editor.
2. Find the file name for your image. It should look something like this: <img SRC="myfolder/mypicture.jpg>.
3. Make sure the alt attribute is "empty"—2 quotation marks with no space (ALT="")

Create a Long Description with Netscape Composer

First, create a new Web page that contains a detailed description of the complex illustration.

Then, create a longdesc attribute. The best way to create a longdesc attribute in Netscape Composer is to edit the HTML code.

1. Select the Tools menu, then HTML Tools, then Edit HTML Source... to open the Composer HTML editor.
2. Find the file name for the image that needs a long description. It should look something like this: <img SRC="myfolder/mypicture.jpg>
3. Add the longdesc attribute to the <img> tag. This indicates to screen reader users that a separate Web page provides a detailed description of the image's content. For example:
   
   

   <IMG SRC="graph.gif" LONGDESC="descrip.html" ALT="Change in enrollment graph.">

   
   

You may also want to provide a direct link to the description page.

1. Place the cursor after the image.
   
2. Type Graph Description, [D], or other appropriate link text.
   
3. Select/highlight the text you just typed.
   
4. Click the Link button.
   
5. Locate, or type, the name of the .html file that contains the long description in the Link to a page location or local file: box.
   
6. Click the OK button.
   

Create a "Jump to Content" Hyperlink with Netscape Composer

First, create a target at the beginning of the main content (after all the navigation links).

1. From the Insert menu, select Target...
   
2. Type a Target Name (for example, content) in the box provided.
   
3. Click the OK button.
   
   

Then, create a hyperlink at the very top of your page that links to that target.

1. Type Jump to Content, or Skip Navigation, at the top of the page (before any of the navigation links).
   
2. Select/highlight the text you just typed.
   
3. From the Insert menu, select Link...
   
4. In the Select a named target in the current page (optional) box, select the target you created in the previous instructions (for example, content).
   
5. Make sure the Current Page button is selected.
   
6. Click the OK button.
   

Create Proportional Widths in Netscape Composer

To define table width by a percentage:

1. From the Insert menu, select Table and then Table...
   (or click the right mouse button on an existing table, then select Table Properties...)
   
2. Make sure the Table width: box is checked.
   
3. Type the percentage number (65, 98, 100, etc.).
   
4. Make sure % of window is selected from the drop-down menu.
   
5. Click the OK button.