- From: Marjolein Katsma <access@javawoman.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 14:50:10 +0200
- To: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Cc: Jonathan Chetwynd <jay@peepo.com>, Bruce Bailey <bbailey@clark.net>, Web Accessibility Initiative <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
David, At 07:55 2000-04-14 -0400, David Poehlman wrote: >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. OK, maybe I'm dumb. I just don't see a better alternative to the W3C logo than "W3C logo". Can you make up a better ALT attribute that still conveys the fact that it *is* a logo, and not "text to be read"? >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, > > Marjolein Katsma HomeSite Help - http://hshelp.com/ Bookstore for Webmasters - http://hshelp.com/bookstore/bookstore.html
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