- From: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:32:46 -0400
- To: "Lee Roberts" <leeroberts@roserockdesign.com>, "WCAG List" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
right, sorry lee. I didn't make it clearer in my previous message [1]. These files were created for evaluation tools and not so helpful for the exercise we wanted to do. That's why I listed several mock-sites to go through. Could you look at those instead? Thanks, --wendy [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2002AprJun/0109.html At 08:52 PM 3/23/02, Lee Roberts wrote: >1.1.1-1f ><img src="noAlt.jpg"/> >Using Netscape 6.2 I ended up with a blank page. Using IE 5.5 I had a >broken image. >This is about as useless as it can get. > >1.1.1-f2 ><img src="gifimage.gif" alt="gifimage.gif"/> >Using Netscape 6.2 I ended up with an alt text of "gifimage.gif". Using >IE 5.5 I had a broken image and alt text. >Personally, I don't care if the image is a gif, jpg, png, tif or anything >else. What is the image all about? > >1.1.1-f3 ><img src="bytesImage.gif" alt="34K bytes"/> >Using Netscape 6.2 I ended up with an alt text of "34k image". Using IE >5.5 I had a broken image and alt text. >The size in bytes of the image is useless information. What's the image >all about? > >1.1.1-f4 ><img src="animage.gif" alt="{short description of image}"/> >Using Netscape 6.2 I ended up with an alt text of "{short description of >image}". Using IE 5.5 I had a broken image and alt text. >The alt image is not useful at all. I would feel much better on this if >we had something that provided base information and a "d" link and/or longdesc. > >1.1.1-f5 ><img src="nullimage.gif" alt=""/> >Using Netscape 6.2 I ended up with a blank page. Using IE 5.5 I had a >broken image and no alt text. >Based upon the name of the file, I'd say it was properly tagged. > >1.1.1-f6 ><img src="space.gif" alt=" "/> >Using Netscape 6.2 I ended up with a blank page. Using IE 5.5 I had a >broken image and no alt text. >Based upon the name of the file, I'd say the image is properly tagged. > >1.1.1-f8 (there was no 1.1.1-f7) ><img src="hasAlt.gif" alt="A small black dog"/> >Using Netscape 6.2 I ended up with an alt text of "a small black >dog". Using IE 5.5 I had a broken image and an alt text. >Well the alt text is descriptive, but is it really a small black >dog? What kind of dog is it? Perhaps it's a mutt or a Yorkie. > >1.1.1-f10 (there was no 1.1.1-f9) ><img src="hasAlt.gif" alt="0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 >0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 >0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789"/> >Using Netscape 6.2 I ended up with a long lising of numbers. Using IE 5.5 >I had a broken image and an alt text. >Since this image has nothing that I can go on for what it is or what it's >for I would say that the alt tag information leaves me wondering what the >heck this is all about. > > >1.1.1-f11 >star.jpg width=5 height=5 >Using Netscape 6.2 I ended up with a blank page. Using IE 5.5 I had a >blank page (I can only image that the image was there and it was a white >image, however when I changed the background to grey I still didn't have >an image) >Based upon the name of the image I think it should have "star" or a >desription of the star since there are different types of stars (e.g., >Star of David, Star of Bethlehem, Sheriff's Star, solar star, etc.). If >the image is used as for an unordered list it should have "list item 1" or >such to identify the separation. > >1.1.1-f12 >bar.gif width=200 height=5 >Using Netscape 6.2 I ended up with a blank page. Using IE 5.5 I had a >blank page again with both a white background and a grey background. >I think this image should have the alt tag of "horizontal rule" or a blank >alt text. I depends upon how the image is being used. > >Sincerely, >Lee Roberts >Rose Rock Design, Inc. >Building web sites accessible by EVERYONE ><http://www.roserockdesign.com/>http://www.roserockdesign.com > -- wendy a chisholm world wide web consortium web accessibility initiative seattle, wa usa /--
Received on Wednesday, 24 April 2002 17:46:53 UTC