- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:05:46 -0400
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, public-html@w3.org
lachlan wrote, quote:
I said *readily available*. Perhaps I should have said easily instead.
Selecting properties from the context menu and then reading the alt
text in the dialog box is not particularly easy or discoverable for many
users. However, unlike video or audio, it's rare that users who can see
the image would want to read the alt text. But with multimedia, there
are a variety of reasons why a user would choose the alternative format
even if they could access the media.
unquote
alt is VERY easily available to those who can see an image -- in most
GUI implementations, @title and @alt are rendered as ToolTips
onMouseOver
also, as i pointed out earlier, one culture's iconic conventions are
another's condundrum, so many many more users may be using @alt to
clarify what precisely is meant by a graphical element of a document
instance than those who have it exposed to them aurally...
gregory.
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