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Re: Dragon!Prompt

[(Anonymous)]

No! The dragon had a name! Ferrovax! Hope this helps!

Re: Dragon!Prompt

[(Anonymous)]

Ok, DW fail! I swear! I refreshed the page and there weren't any comments on this prompt and then there they all were with all the info about Ferrovax! Sorry! *Facepalm*

Re: Dragon!Prompt

[(Anonymous)]

I remembered the cigarette and the armor, but not the name bit. XD

Enormously powerful can equal awesome sexytimes, too. :) Hey, we're pairing Harry up with Gods, why not forces of the universe too? Granted, Odin might not be considered as powerful as a dragon... that could be some interesting by-play, too!

Re: Dragon!Prompt

[(Anonymous)]

That was OP, by the way. Oh Gods, I am failing big tonight.

Re: See the Truth

[binz]

Er, that should be: The long and short of how I understand it, it gives the screen reader something to read so the user knows where they're going, as many of the screen readers won't(?) read the hyperlinked text.

[a href="google.com" alt="link to google.com"]go to google![/a]

(There's also the title attribute title=" ", which is basically what gives you hovertext, for a little bit more non-essential info, but (again, as I understand it) alt is preferred, and most programmes will read it instead of title if both are present.

There's also also longdesc, which links to a separate page with a much longer description, but I think browser support for that is patchy, and also, if you need to link to a separate page to describe where your link is going, you're doing it wrong. Title and longdesc are generally, I think, more common for images than links anyway.)

Re: Dragon!Prompt

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently my brain is mush tonight, so *I'm* not gonna complain when someone else has issues as well. Thanks for the info anyways! :)

-OP

Re: See the Truth

[jadelennox]

No, you don't need alt tags on anchors, just on images. <img src="url" alt="harry necking with marcone" />

In an anchor, some people put title attributes, but they don't actually help with any common adaptive tech settings. So don't worry about it.

Re: See the Truth

[luciazephyr]

:even more confused now, aaaah:

I... will wait until I see LGI on Twitter and ask her about it, since I know she uses a screen reader. 8D

Re: Dragon!Prompt

[(Anonymous)]

Names are very, very good. :)

And I am now wishing that there was a Dresden Files Lexicon (like the Harry Potter Lexicon (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/)) where I could just look stuff up when I don't remember!

-OP

Re: See the Truth

[jadelennox]

No, you don't need alt tags on anchors, just on images. <img src="url" alt="harry necking with marcone" />

In an anchor, some people put title attributes, but they don't actually help with most common adaptive tech settings. So don't worry about it. Screenreaders will read the text wrapped in the element, eg: <a href="url">screenreaders will read this part</a>

Re: See the Truth

[jadelennox]

Basically, use alt on images, and you're fine. Use meaningful linktext on anchor tags (eg: <a href="url">screenreaders will read this part</a>), and you're fine. :D

[(Anonymous)]

Female!Dresden/Hendricks
Always female or turned female is up to you, but I really want to see this pairing.

[(Anonymous)]

I never realized how much I wanted this in my life until now.

Re: Dragon!Prompt

[(Anonymous)]

There's actually a couple of Dresden Files wikis that are good for things like that. The wikia one at http://dresdenfiles.wikia.com is most comprehensive, but you have to put up with wikia.

(also: pernwriting anon is going *facepalm*, it's just like Pern only with x instead of th. Butcher, why do you do these things?)

Re: See the Truth

[(Anonymous)]

How do screenreaders handle what happens to links in anon comments? I usually do bare links in anon comments because the anchor links get twisted up anyway, but is it better for screenreaders if I still use them?

That is, do screenreaders like "the Dresden Files Wikia (http://dresdenfiles.wikia.com)" better than "here's the Dresden Files Wikia: http://dresdenfiles.wikia.com "? Because if so I'll go back to using anchor tags.

(And note to the hapless anon commenter who spawned this discussion: none of the stuff posted above will work if you're posting anon, because DW/LJ will make a link look like the bold bit in this comment, and inline images will get swapped out with a placeholder. It's a spamfighting thing.)

Re: See the Truth

[lightgetsin]

What Jade said -- regular links with no alt attribute are fine.

Re: See the Truth

[luciazephyr]

Thank you! Just wanted to be sure. ♥

Re: See the Truth

[lightgetsin]

No, none of that is the slightest bit necessary for screenreaders. You're the third person who's thought so -- where are people getting this stuff?

Re: Dragon!Prompt

[(Anonymous)]

...this is news to me. I may love you just for this. Yes, there is the wikia issues, but I have just learned that the Dragon is (supposedly) going to come back at the end, during the "big apocalyptic trilogy." Which means he comes back.

Thank you, Jim Butcher. You are even more awesome, if that's possible.

...I haven't actually read much Pern, and it's been a while since I've read what I did, so I didn't make the connection.

Re: Dragon!Prompt

[binz]

A tiny, tiny caveat for folks using the Dresden wiki to always double check the source (what? when using a wiki? shocking, I know!) if you get a physical description of a character from there. I have honestly no idea if someone's trolled the various (secondary, mostly) characters too subtly for much lols or what, but they can describe pretty much the opposite of how the characters are in the books-- ex. Mac as "short, squat, and grey hair" instead of tall, gangly/medium-build-as-the-books-go-on, bald.

Re: See the Truth

[lightgetsin]

They are functionally the same, so doesn't matter.

Re: Dragon!Prompt

[luciazephyr]

The wikia/wikis associated with the Dresden Files are... uh... kind of terrible, actually, IMO. If I were you, I'd look into Book Two of the Dresden Files RPG, "Our World." Extensive backgrounds on every character in the series and a lot of great information on 'Occult Chicago' as well. It's an invaluable resource.

Re: See the Truth

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for letting me know!

Re: Dragon!Prompt

[(Anonymous)]

I never trust wiki's; I once knew a professor who went in to a wiki and completely altered the plot of one of the classic lit stories - I think it was "the Scarlet Letter" but I'm not sure - just to prove that there weren't any checks in the "wiki" system.

It was two weeks before someone noticed and fixed it. I sort of feel sorry for any high school kids who used the wiki during that time. But at the same time, shame on them for not doing their homework!

Re: Dragon!Prompt

[luciazephyr]

This this THIS. The wikia's terrible. I tried using it as a resource when I started writing The Matter of Chicago. I quit using it fast, lemme say.