- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:15:07 -0500
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>, WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
>What would you suggest as a good way to explain the difference >between "alt" and "title" on images? I have been working up to making the case that all the WCAG documents, even the normative ones, should be written in a much more conversational form. I would thus advance the proposal that an explanation of alt, title, and longdesc could read as follows-- informal and immediately understandable. alt, title, and longdesc provide basic, intermediate, and advanced information about a graphic. 1. alt tells you the function or purpose of the graphic-- *essential* information. 2. title tells you more about the graphic-- nice-to-know or explanatory information. 3. longdesc tells you everything you ever wanted to know about the graphic-- thorough, encyclopedic information. There. Writing things this way (yes, we can and will rewrite, but you get my drift) lets people immediately *get what we're talking about*. You don't even need to give them examples here. Even if these were authors' only instructions, they would still get things right most of the time. This, at least, is my theory. -- Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org | <http://joeclark.org/access/> Accessibility articles, resources, and critiques
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