- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:03:08 -0700
- To: love26@gorge.net
- Cc: au <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
At 01:46 p.m. 04/29/99 -0700, William Loughborough wrote: >"page still gets a bobby approved when in actuality the links, which are >images with alt="", are invisible." This may be acceptable sometimes. >If our "AAA conformant" authoring tool put out anything that met the >above description, where did we go wrong? The example cited is >http://www.dors.state.md.us/test.html which I haven't tested. If the same link can be accessed some other way, then it doesn't matter if the link is invisible. >Bruce Bailey, who brought this up recommends: "My recommendation is that >ALT="" should be illegal inside <A HREF..." Example: <A HREF="http://www.hwg.org/" TITLE="Go to the HWG" ><IMG SRC="hwg.gif" ALT=""></A> <BR> <A HREF="http://www.hwg.org/" TITLE="Go to the HWG" >HTML Writers Guild</A> For graphical browsers, this displays as: (Image -- Link) (Text -- Link) For non-graphical browsers, this displays as: (Text -- Link) I maintain that the above is better than: _HTML Writers Guild_ _HTML Writers Guild_ ...which is what would result if I had used ALT="HTML Writers Guild" -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@hwg.org> President, Governing Board Member HTML Writers Guild <URL:http://www.hwg.org> Director, Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education Center <URL:http://aware.hwg.org/>
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