- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@contenu.nu>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:15:12 -0500
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>, WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
>>alt, title, and longdesc provide basic, intermediate, and advanced >>information about a graphic. > >The idea that alt, title, and longdesc are a hierarchy of information >is, in my opinion, confusing and not to spec, specifically when talking >about the @title attribute. @title has a specific definition in HTML, >and it's not "intermediate information" when applied to a graphic. The "spec" is <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#adef-title> and says "This attribute offers advisory information about the element for which it is set." In other words, anything goes. >Apart from the style, the content of these definitions is lacking. >For example, you have redefined @alt so it's no longer "a text >equivalent" but is now "the function or purpose" in a minimal >way. Welcome to reality. That is consistent with all advice on the use of alt. longdesc is also a text equivalent. So how would *you* differentiate them? That was my one and only attempt to define these terms. I give up. I'll leave the task in the evidently-more-capable hands of others. -- Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org | <http://joeclark.org/access/> Accessibility articles, resources, and critiques
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