- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 08:56:47 -0400 (EDT)
- To: dd@w3.org
- Cc: w3c-wai-wg@w3.org
From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org> Subject: ALT content question We've been discussing internally whether or not the W3C logo (http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Icons/WWW/w3c_home.gif), as used in http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/People/danield/w3c/wai/slide2.htm, for example, should be marked with ALT text "W3C", or "W3C logo". They are both inappropriate. The ALT text should be W3C Projects Status or more briefly Projects Status To explain: This particular link is a bottom-of-page synonym for the "top" link. It is offering you the function "move to the root within [some scope]" The appropriate ALT text is the external title of [some scope]. The "home" connotation of the icon is, as it is used in this context, more important than the "W3C" branding. But you don't want to label this link just "home." It is better, since there are multiple values of "home" depending on the degree of locality or globality of focus, to explicitly identify the scope that this link takes you "home" within. The anchor content should advise you what is at the far end of the link. If this image were not the content of a link, but used to frame the signature section of the page, the ALT text is better "W3C" and not "W3C logo" if the browser is Lynx. In Netscape with the graphics turned off, I might prefer "W3C logo." In speech, ...? -- Al Gilman
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