- From: Maurice Carey <maurice@thymeonline.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:45:19 -0400
- To: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On 8/23/07 9:35 AM, "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk> wrote: > > > > Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I think it would be good if the spec included a set of examples to >> explain that the alt text is dependent upon the context in which the >> image is used, and the purpose it is used for. So the same image may be >> used in different locations and have entirely different alt text. >> >> For example, and picture of a flag, such as the Australian flag, may be >> used in different contexts. >> >> * As a link to a localised version of a site. >> <a href="/au"><img src="aus-flag.png" alt="Australia"></a> > > If I were a visually disabled visitor to a site, and > I were presented with the single word "Australia" as > ALT text, I cannot help but feel that I would be not > one jot wiser. Gregory, can you help here ? > > ** Phil. > I agree with Philip. That example is what I'd imagine a tooltip saying. I honestly have no idea what Australia's flag looks like. If I came across a site that for whatever reason didn't have the uk or usa flag I'd scrub my mouse across the flags until I got to tooltip of a country name that I knew spoke english. -- :: thyme online ltd :: po box cb13650 nassau the bahamas :: website: http://www.thymeonline.com/ :: tel: 242 327-1864 fax: 242 377 1038
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