- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:47:16 +0100
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- CC: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, public-html@w3.org
Maybe consider instead the views of those
who understand the need for accessibility :
http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/articles/too-much-accessibility/too-much-accessibility-title-attributes/
Philip Taylor
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Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>
> Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote:
>> alt is VERY easily available to those who can see an image -- in most
>> GUI implementations, @title and @alt are rendered as ToolTips onMouseOver
>
> The alt attribute is only rendered as a tooltip in IE, and that's
> considered a bug for a variety of reasons. See this article.
>
> http://hixie.ch/advocacy/alt-tooltips
>
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