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Long descriptions

Capture long descriptions of figures in a section of back matter to the article/chapter it appears in.

//back/sec[@sec-type = "long-descriptions"]

Give this section a sec-type attribute with value long-descriptions and a title Text alternatives to non-text content.

Capture each long description in a child sec element with a sec-type attribute with value long-description-object.

Give this section a title as supplied. If a title is not supplied, use text that identifies what media is being described, e.g. Text alternative to Figure 19..

Use one or more p element for the textual part of a long description. Complex images may require long descriptions divided into headed fragments, in which case use two or more sec elements and provide a title for each section.

Long description in a paragraph

<sec id="workid-USAC0042402-book-part-3-sec-2" sec-type="long-descriptions">
  <title>Text alternatives to non-text content</title>
  <sec id="workid-USAC0042402-book-part-3-sec-3" sec-type="long-description-object">
    <title>Text alternative to Figure 19</title>
      <p>The male peacock head is metallic blue on the crown, the feathers of the head
         being short and curled. The fan-shaped crest on the head is made of feathers
         with bare black shafts and tipped with blush-green webbing. A white stripe above
         the eye and a crescent shaped white patch below the eye are formed by bare white
         skin. The sides of the head have iridescent greenish blue feathers. The back has
         scaly bronze-green feathers with black and copper markings.</p>
  </sec>
  <!-- 
    Long descriptions of further figures
  -->
</sec>

Long description divided into multiple headed sections

<sec id="ojaf154-s5" sec-type="long-descriptions">
 <title>Text alternatives to non-text content</title>
 <sec id="ojaf154-s5.1" sec-type="long-description-object">
   <title>Text alternative to Figure 20</title>
     <sec id="ojaf154-s5.1.1">
       <title>Overview</title>
       <p>The chart shows the website hits for the first quarter of 2014. It shows that
         Site 1 has more visitors than either of the other sites, but the number of
         visitors is decreasing. Site 2 has a fairly constant number of visitors,
         while for Site 3 page hits are increasing month on month.</p>
     </sec>
     <sec id="ojaf154-s5.1.2">
       <title>Values</title>
       <p>
         <!-- Further description --></p>
     </sec>
     <!-- Further description -->
  </sec>
  <!-- 
    Long descriptions of further figures
  -->
</sec>
Release ID:
20260304
ID:
long_descriptions
Author:
dunnm
Last changed:
Wed, 04 Mar 2026
Modified by:
bachev
Revision#:
3085