Re: Alt tags, Title Tags, and 4.1.2

If you're following the HTML 4.01 Specification

Forms in HTML documents
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/interact/forms.html#input-control-types

17.4.1 Control types created with INPUT
image 
Creates a graphical submit button. The value of the src attribute 
specifies the URI of the image that will decorate the button. For 
accessibility reasons, authors should provide alternate text for the image 
via the alt attribute.

7 The global structure of an HTML document
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/global.html#h-7.4.3

7.4.3 The title attribute
Attribute definitions
title = text [CS] 
This attribute offers advisory information about the element for which it 
is set.

And I wonder if the value of the title attribute is really advisory in 
this case, or simply provides alternative text. If so, it makes sense to 
use alt as in Example 2c.

Bill Williams




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I have a document with an image and an alt tag. See example 2c
 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20081211/H91
 
Is the title field mandatory as suggested in 2d, 2e, or do I pass with 
example 2c?