RE: alt tags no with a twist

Chuck is correct - use of tooltips for alt text is a good thing. Even 
when the images are displayed, it can be helpful to have the ALT text 
available. The most common example is for icons used throughout a site. 
Since icons mean different things to different people, it is often 
helpful to those of us with a T3 graphics setup to be able to view the 
information as words - it reinforces the meaning of the graphic, or 
explains it clearly. It is also the case that Opera is the only browser I 
know that allows resizing of the display - small images may be sometimes 
fine and sometimes difficult for people with low vision or partial/full 
colour blindness to understand.

Charles McCathieNevile

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Charles (Chuck) Oppermann wrote:
> All throughout graphical user interfaces, ToolTips are used to provide
> textual representations of graphical objects.
> 
> Sure some people will abuse ALT, but it's likely that those relatively small
> number of people who do so, wouldn't have bothered with an ALT if the
> ToolTip feature didn't exist.  Finally, nearly 100% of the time, some ALT
> text is better than no ALT text.
>