- From: Marjolein Katsma <access@javawoman.com>
- Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 22:56:45 +0100
- To: "Bruce Bailey" <bbailey@clark.net>, "Web Accessibility Initiative" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- Cc: "Kynn Bartlett" <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
Bruce,
At 15:58 2000-03-03 -0500, Bruce Bailey wrote:
>Dear Marjolein et al.,
>
>Thanks for addressing both my question and my problem -- even though the two
>turned out not to be terribly related! Apologies to all about the missing
>Subject line!
>
>Getting back to http://www.dohistory.org, from an access point of view, the
>main problem is the missing ALT content. These are the folks who were
>deliberately removing ALT tags because it distracted from their desired
>JavaScript mouse-over behavior.
Ah!
>Is there JavaScript code that suppresses this default "tool-top/pop-up"
>behavior of IE? I was hoping that TITLE="" would do it, but that doesn't
>sound like it would be the case.
I should hope not! I *use* the tooltips. If I came across a page that had ALT attributes and managed to use JavaScript to suppress the tooltips, I'd immediately construct a filter for my trusted Proxomitron (an HTML/JavaScript filter program that functions as a local proxy) to suppress that suppressing JavaScript so no other site could do that to me again. ;-)
Seriously though, I don't think it's possible.
[snip]
>The work around was to have the main page pretty much JavaScript free
>(yeah!) but have one script that invoked the JavaScript oriented site
>instead. This was even better!
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
> <!--
> top.location.href=("http://www.somewhere.com/indexjs.html");
> //-->
> </SCRIPT>
Nice!
But it's still a tradeoff between downloading extra bytes (which would be ignored) and an extra connect. Which is more efficient? I have no idea. And you have two pages to maintain (or generate) instead of one.
Cheers,
Marjolein Katsma
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