- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:16:14 +0100
- To: Marghanita da Cruz <marghanita@ramin.com.au>
- CC: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org
Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > As an HTML author, I use the alt text as a caption - the kind of > additional information I tend to provide is Photographer or Artist's > name. However, that is not the intended purpose of ALT based pn the HTML 4.01 spec. It's ALTernate text, to be rendered in situations when the image itself cannot be loaded/perceived. It's not a field for metadata, but an alternative form of the same content. > I would like to see all browsers display the alt text and other > attributes as a > "mouseover" rather than with a right click for properties. Again, when looking at the ALT's real purpouse according to the spec, though, this may arguably not be logical behaviour. If an image was successfully displayed to a sighted user in a visual client, the textual alternative format may be regarded as redundant. Of course, if you're instead using ALT for additional/advisory information (the domain of the TITLE attribute), then I can see why you'd wish this behaviour to be implemented. P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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