- From: Jan Richards <jan.richards@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:47:45 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
Hi, I agree. It may be a good last chance solution for browsers but it shouldn't become an ALT text substitute. We may howeve want to emphasize good TITLE-ing of documents within authoring tools. - Jan William Loughborough wrote: > > Ian sends from Wendy: "Another possible use of the TITLE element is to > provide alt-text for images used as linke to pages when authors don't > provide alt-text. In this case, a brower could grab the contents of the > TITLE element of the document being pointed to and use this as the > alt-text." > > WL:: I don't think this is the venue for this because: 1) it doesn't > deal with authoring *Tool* possibilities, rather is mainly for browsers; > 2) it's not likely to "provide [USEFUL] alt-text for images..." since > the TITLE isn't apt to give much info about any particular IMG. > -- > Love. > ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE > http://dicomp.pair.com
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