- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:16:48 -0500
- To: "Kasday, Leonard R (Len), ALTEC" <kasday@att.com>, "'w3c-wai-gl@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 10:34 AM 18/02/98 -0500, Kasday, Leonard R (Len), ALTEC wrote: >I see you added the words "Welcome to" in your ALT text for Archimedes >plumbing, even though those words don't appear in the banner. > >I take it that this follows the philosophy that ALT text should reflect >the function of the image, rather than a literal rendition, right? Right, my including "Welcome to" was mostly to emphasize the functional nature of the ALT text. In practice, I'd probably leave it off for brevity. >Thus, we'd have "Welcome to Archimedes plumbing etc." on the home page, >but if the banner is repeated on other pages the words "Welcome to" >would be omitted. Do you agree with that? Yes. >The only unfortunate thing is that the attribute name "TITLE" doesn't >really communicate what TITLE does. Think of the TITLE attribute as analagous to an HTML document's TITLE element. In other words, think about what you would use as a title for an image (or paragraph or applet, etc.). For the A element, the TITLE attribute could logically be the TITLE element of the linked HTML document. Liam >>At 10:40 AM 17/02/98 -0500, Kasday, Leonard R (Len), ALTEC wrote: >>>Suppose we have a web site for a hypothetical business "Archimedes >>>Plumbing", and the banner contains the text "Archimedes Plumbing" and >>>shows Archimedes, a white haired 60-ish Greek gentleman, sitting in a >>>sudsy bathtub, wielding a pipe wrench above his head. His boney >>>kneecaps just break the surface of the suds. The color scheme is based >>>on cool blue. There's a slogan at the bottom of the banner, "Your best >>>plumbing value". >> >>I would use the following: >> >><H1><IMG SRC="banner.gif" ALT="Welcome to Archimedes Plumbing, your best >>plumbing value" TITLE="Archimedes in the tub" LONGDESC="banner.html"></H1> >> >>And for the actual long description, >> >>The <A HREF="banner.gif">Archimedes Plumbing banner</A> shows Archimedes, a >>white-haired 60-ish Greek gentleman, sitting in a sudsy bathtub, wielding a >>pipe wrench above his head. His boney kneecaps just break the surface of >>the suds. The color scheme is based on cool blue. At the bottom of the >>banner is the slogan "Your best plumbing value". -- Liam Quinn Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/
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