- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 18:51:56 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 10:59 AM 25/03/98 -0500, Chris Maden wrote on w3c-wai-ig: >(2) This is the reason I'm posting this here instead of mailing Joyce >directly. <img alt="purple line">. While designing for access, it's >important to consider the sighted viewers too! I see three audiences >for the alt text: graphic browser users with image loading turned off, >text browser users, and visually impaired users. Those with image >loading turned off want to know whether to load the image. For them, >an indication of whether or not a line is interesting enough to load >is worthwhile. But for text browser users, a snippet of text doesn't >have the same effect as a rule does - it doesn't break up the page in >the same way. Using ASCII-graphic alt text helps them. And I think >that most screen readers skip most punctuation. I think a combination >alt text would work well for all three audiences: maybe something like ><img alt="purple line________________________________"> and ><img alt="zig-zag line /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\"> would >work well. I would use <IMG ALT="-------------------------" TITLE="Purple line"> ALT as replacement text, TITLE as an image title: If we treat these attributes this way, we get simplicity and consistency. -- Liam Quinn Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/
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