Re: ALT and TITLE Clarification

Andrew noted regarding http://atrc.utoronto.ca:

> The W3C AAA conformance icon's alt should be (IMHO),
> "W3C WAI-AAA WCAG 1.0".  It will be better when the
> abbreviations and acronyms in the
> icon's text can be expanded, but in this case users get the same info
> whether they are sighted or not.
>
One purpose of the image is to let people know that the page complies to the
WCAG. It's other purpose is a link to the document that describes what the
conformance means. So the Alt text should be something like "Complies with
WCAG 1.0 level AAA. Description of conformance".

> I'd put additional information into
> the title attribute, but currently would have a
> low expectation that it
> would be read.
>
Jaws 5 will read title. You can also set it to read the longer of Alt or
title.

Chris

Received on Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:21:19 UTC