- From: Patrick Garies <pgaries@fastmail.us>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:37:33 -0500
- To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Robert Burns wrote: > It might be helpful if you too could provide some examples of what > you're saying. For example, in Jon's Fluffy picture example, how would > you populate the @alt attribute? I understand one needs context to be > able to do this, but feel free to take liberties, make assumptions and > fill in the gaps and then craft an example. It would just be helpful > to see how one might attach proper @alt and @longdesc to an simple > example like this. Context: document about Fluffy Code: <img alt="Fluffy likes playing with balls of yarn." src="cat.png"> Code: <img alt="My cat Fluffy likes playing with balls of yarn." src="cat.png"> Code: <img alt="I let my cat, Fluffy, played with a ball of yarn when we were at my friend’s house a year ago. He seemed to enjoy it." src="cat.png"> Code: <img alt="I own a cat named Fluffy. He likes playing with balls of yarn." src="cat.png"> You want to convey what the image was meant to convey rather than simply describing what’s in the image. If that isn’t clear enough, take the following example. Image: icon depicting a house Bad Example: <a href="/"><img alt="House Icon" src="home.png"></a> Good Example: <a href="/"><img alt="Go to the Home Page" src="home.png"></a> <a href="/">House Icon</a> is, obviously, not what was meant to be conveyed.
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