Re: redundant alt text

At 9:26 AM -0500 12/17/00, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
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>I don't think so. There is nothing to indicate where the first link is going.
>What do people think? Do each of these, none of these, or some of these
>correctly satisfy the P1 checkpoint 1.1 ?

A title tag could be set on the <a> attribute.

It's entirely possible that a web author may not want (or may not
be able) to put links directly next to each other, or may not
even _think_ of the two as the _same_ link, but rather as _two
different links_.  (The author's view of the process is very
important to consider.)

I think that all of the three examples you gave clearly met WCAG1's
checkpoint 1.1 which specifies that a textual equivalent must be
provided.  (There is not a "make the relationship explicitly
known" requirement in WCAG1.)

--Kynn
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Received on Sunday, 17 December 2000 13:11:38 UTC