Re: images / alt text / title

> At the moment the site I'm thinking of has longish descriptions of 
> where the buttons link to, in their "alt" , but no "title".

This is almost certainly a Netscape 4- compatibilty thing.  It is not
normally done for accessibility, but to create "tool tips" without
regard to the behaviour on non-text browsers.  NS4- don't understand
title.