- From: John T. Whelan <whelan@physics.utah.edu>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 11:43:05 -0600
- To: karl.hebenstreit@gsa.gov, rich@accessexpressed.net, thatch@us.ibm.com
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, webwatch-l@teleport.com
>The "-" denotes that the section is collapsed, so the available >actions are either to review the information as provided or to choose >Enter to expand the section. The relevant HTML source code for these >collapsed sections is: <IMG SRC="/icons/collapse.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="- "> >Conversely, the "+" denotes that the section is expanded, and the >action to be taken would be to collapse the section. >Therefore, to address this issue, I believe that the appropriate >solution would be to have the Notes-to-HTML translation generate an >ALT="Expand Section" instead of the "-" and an ALT="Collapse Section" >instead of the "+". This would address the "meaningful link text" >rule [to which Al Gilman referred]. Wouldn't a reasonable compromise be <A HREF=[whatever] TITLE="Collapse Section"> <IMG SRC="/icons/collapse.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="- "> </A> assuming that clicking on the images is performed thru an A element? That way text-based visual users get an intuitive, compact representation, but the link is labelled with a more descriptive title. (I don't know what the behavior of screen readers is when an image link has both ALT on the IMG and TITLE on the A, but I know Bobby complains when TITLE is absent for an image link, even if there is an ALT.) John T. Whelan whelan@iname.com http://www.slack.net/~whelan/
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