- From: Chris Ridpath <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:28:22 -0500
- To: "John M Slatin" <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>, "Joe Clark" <joeclark@joeclark.org>, "WAI-GL" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
The suggested requirement is that the title attribute on the A (anchor) element be used to identify the link destination. The image's alt text would identify the image. I hear John's concern that current user agents don't support this and there would be problems until user agents did support it. I also heard John's comment that alt text changes on the context of the image. But I think this may be the best route (use the anchor's title to describe the link destination). If applied it would solve other problems too. There's currently a problem when multiple links use the same link text, like "more". If we used the anchor's title to describe the destination then the actual link text doesn't matter. We could also ask that the image's alt text be set to the same value until user agents catch up. (Did I just write "until user agents"? Oh no!) Example: <a href="home.html" title="home page"><img src="house.png" alt="home page"/></a> This strategy would limit the pain in the short term and give us long term gains. Chris P.S. Does someone have a reference to what the UAAG says about this?
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