- From: Daniel Dardailler <Daniel.Dardailler@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 07:55:01 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/bulletins/bulletin.htm TIP: USING ALT TEXT TO ANNOTATE YOUR IMAGES FrontPage automatically annotates each image you place in your Web pages with its corresponding file name (such as filename.gif). This allows a visitor who has turned off the browser’s ability to render images to see alternative text or "alt text" in place of the image. It’s also critical to use alt text on your images so that vision impaired users who use Web page readers can get a description of the image on your page. You may also want to replace the file name with something more informative like "Click here to proceed" or "Picture of my product" that gives the user a better idea of what she can expect by clicking on the image area. To change the alt text, simply right click on the image and select Image Properties from the menu. Under the general tab of the image properties dialog box, find the section called Alternative Representation. It is here, under the field labeled "Text" that you can replace the file name with your custom annotation, then hit OK, and then save the page. Make sure that the text is not too long to fit in the area allowed by the image.
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