RE: alt-text idea...

isn't the title downloaded anyway along with the rest of the source?  so
all we are doing is reformatting what's already there?


On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:

> This is a powerful safetynet type of idea - but we have to be
> careful in implementation or this could cause a LOT of extra web
> traffic.  and slow page loading...   if every page without alt
> text does a fetch of the title for each of the links on the page.
> 
> However, if we set it up so that it is not done automatically it
> should be fine.    That is, if it were a user option or done on
> user request.    Then the titles would only be fetched if the
> user was looking at blank image anchors and had no idea what they
> pointed to.    No substitute for ALT, but a very nice safety net.
> 
> So this would really be a UA issue primarily - with titles being
> important for it to work.   So I will post this (separately) over
> there.
> 
> Gregg
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-wai-au-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-wai-au-request@w3.org]On
> Behalf Of Jan Richards
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 1998 1:48 PM
> To: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
> Subject: Re: alt-text idea...
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I agree. It may be a good last chance solution for browsers but
> it
> shouldn't become an ALT text substitute.  We may howeve want to
> emphasize good TITLE-ing of documents within authoring tools.
> 
> - Jan
> 
> William Loughborough wrote:
> >
> > Ian sends from Wendy: "Another possible use of the TITLE
> element is to
> > provide alt-text for images used as linke to pages when authors
> don't
> > provide alt-text.  In this case, a brower could grab the
> contents of the
> > TITLE element of the document being pointed to and use this as
> the
> > alt-text."
> >
> > WL:: I don't think this is the venue for this because: 1) it
> doesn't
> > deal with authoring *Tool* possibilities, rather is mainly for
> browsers;
> > 2) it's not likely to "provide [USEFUL] alt-text for images..."
> since
> > the TITLE isn't apt to give much info about any particular IMG.
> > --
> > Love.
> >             ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
> > http://dicomp.pair.com
> 

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