- From: <kynn-eda@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 07:47:00 -0800 (PST)
- To: steve@juggler.net (Steve Carter)
- Cc: j.byrne@gcal.ac.uk (Jim Byrne), w3c-wai-ig@w3.org (W3c_Access)
Steve wrote: > IMO you should focus on the goal of the page and the goals of the images. > In an online campus prospectus then the pictures are there to give you a > (distorted:-) idea of campus life, so you might want the ALT text to read > "Ducks on the lake on a warm summer day.". The problem is that this sentence by itself, located where the <img> element is located, makes no sense out of context. E.g. in Lynx, without knowing it's an image, it looks darned peculiar. Peculiarness isn't an accessibility problem, of course, but a style and (somewhat) a usability one. In my opinion it's better to state that an image is an image (even if that's redundant for some users) than just leave a nonsequitur phrase floating there on the page. --Kynn
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