Re: The visual Web vs. seamless accessibility (was Re: RIT - Javascript)

At 03:41 PM 05/05/98 +1100, M. da Cruz wrote:
KSW::
>> What I want then is to load graphics and then have TITLEs displayed with
>> them. Sort of like the old printed page captions with pictures or tables or
>> graphs or whatever. am I the only one who would like this?

MdC::
>Actually, I would like to be able to do that, I have had to resort to
>adding the text to the image

A CAPTION element contained within OBJECT would have been nice.

>ideally the alt text should be displayed as
>a caption when the image is displayed.

No.  The ALT attribute provides a replacement for the image, not a
description of it.  A replacement is rarely appropriate as a caption.

-- 
Liam Quinn
Web Design Group            Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development
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Received on Tuesday, 5 May 1998 07:31:11 UTC