Editing HTML dom elements in web browsers with non-visual capabilities

A computer program product in a computer readable medium for use in a data processing system, for rendering an image area in an electronic document, comprising:

• instructions for parsing a first electronic document and creating a document object model;
• instructions for determining if an image within the first electronic document contains an attribute that names a uniform resource locator address for a second electronic document, wherein the second electronic document contains a long description of the image in the first electronic document;
• instructions for creating a new subtree within the document object model of the first electronic document, wherein the subtree is adjacent to the image in the document object model, and wherein the subtree presents a renderable hyperlink to the second electronic document containing the long description of the image;
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• instructions for rendering at least one of the following:
• i) the image, and
• ii) the hyperlink.

A system for rendering an image area in an electronic document, comprising:

• a parser which parses a first electronic document and creates a document object model;
• an analyzing component which determines if an image within the first electronic document contains an attribute that names a uniform resource locator address for a second electronic document, wherein the second electronic document contains a long description of the image in the first electronic document;
• an editing component which creates a new subtree within the document object model of the first electronic document, wherein the subtree is adjacent to the image in the document object model, and wherein the subtree presents a renderable hyperlink to the second electronic document containing the long description of the image;
• and
• a rendering mechanism which renders at least one of the following:
• i) the image, and
• ii) the hyperlink.