- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 13:00:13 -0800
- To: Jo Miller <jo@bendingline.com>, WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 1:45 PM -0500 12/4/01, Jo Miller wrote: >As Al Gilman pointed out recently [1], the presence of a title >attribute causes JAWS to ignore the alt attribute completely and >read only the title. Sucks to be JAWS. ;) > In practical terms, this would simply mean that if one is including >the title attribute for a particular image, one should not count on >users being able to hear or see what's in the alt attribute. This is why server-side tweaking may prove necessary to deal with broken user agents -- but it's not an argument against including appropriate human-readable metadata (the @title attribute) in your document. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/
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