- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn@sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:21:49 +1000 (EST)
- To: WAI <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Chuck is correct - use of tooltips for alt text is a good thing. Even when the images are displayed, it can be helpful to have the ALT text available. The most common example is for icons used throughout a site. Since icons mean different things to different people, it is often helpful to those of us with a T3 graphics setup to be able to view the information as words - it reinforces the meaning of the graphic, or explains it clearly. It is also the case that Opera is the only browser I know that allows resizing of the display - small images may be sometimes fine and sometimes difficult for people with low vision or partial/full colour blindness to understand. Charles McCathieNevile On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Charles (Chuck) Oppermann wrote: > All throughout graphical user interfaces, ToolTips are used to provide > textual representations of graphical objects. > > Sure some people will abuse ALT, but it's likely that those relatively small > number of people who do so, wouldn't have bothered with an ALT if the > ToolTip feature didn't exist. Finally, nearly 100% of the time, some ALT > text is better than no ALT text. >
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