- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:46:17 -0800
- To: Joe Clark <joeclark@contenu.nu>, WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 6:15 AM -0500 12/6/01, Joe Clark wrote: >>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. Which isn't the say as saying it's step 2 in a hierarchy of info... >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? I'm still thinking about it. >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. The idea that you'd have to actually work _with_ people to be on a working group still grates on you, doesn't it? --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/
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