- From: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 07:55:17 -0400
- To: Marjolein Katsma <access@javawoman.com>
- CC: Jonathan Chetwynd <jay@peepo.com>, Bruce Bailey <bbailey@clark.net>, Web Accessibility Initiative <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
The word logo in an alt tag belies the function of alt. alt is to present an alternative equivalent to, not the function of the image. Marjolein Katsma wrote: > > These are two LOGOs - they just happen to consist of letters. The ALT attributes for both actually say they're logos. Both also contain more than just letters (lines). > > I don't see anything wrong with logos that happen to consist of letters - there are many. They're still logo's in the sense they're used as identification: they're there to be recognized, not "read". > > But presenting text that is meant to be _read_ (menus, body text, headers even) in the form of GIFs is another matter. > > IMO, of course. > > Cheers, > > At 08:49 2000-04-14 +0100, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > >This is one I cannot seem to get my head around. > > > >How come the WAI homepage has 2 examples of GIF'd text right at the top of > >the page? > > > > > >jay@peepo.com > > > >special needs teacher > >web accessibility consultant > > Marjolein Katsma > HomeSite Help - http://hshelp.com/ > Bookstore for Webmasters - http://hshelp.com/bookstore/bookstore.html -- Hands-On Technolog(eye)s ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman http://poehlman.clark.net mailto:poehlman@clark.net voice 301-949-7599 end sig.
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