- From: Bruce Bailey <bbailey@clark.net>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:39:01 -0500
- To: "Web Accessibility Initiative" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- Cc: "Kristin Barlow" <barlow@fas.harvard.edu>, "tom mcCain" <tmccain@on-net.net>
Frabjious day, calhoot calhey! Thanks Tom! I think the phenomenon of authors removing (or not using) ALT because of MS IE ToolTip pop-up behavior may be more widespread than we might care to admit. Here's the work around: 1) Use good ALT text tag content (of course)! 2) Specify TITLE="" -- this is important -- as part of the same (IMG) element that contains the ALT text. The result (with IE 5, I expect 4 also) is suppression of the tool-tip pop-up. Visual users get nothing (JavaScript swap-outs excepted) when they pause their mouse pointer over a graphic. ALT content IS still accessible to screen reader and text browsers. Check out http://www.dors.state.md.us/index2.html as an example (compare to original home page at http://www.dors.state.md.us./index.html -- this demo page will not live for long). My problem from before is that I was trying: <A HREF="foobar.html" TITLE=""><IMG SRC=foo.gif ALT="foobar"></A> This works on IE 4.5 on a Mac, but not with Windows. I should have tried: <A HREF="foobar.html"><IMG SRC=foo.gif ALT="foobar" TITLE=""></A> Now, this misuse of TITLE is probably an issue for some group to content with, but at least we address a P1 WCAG checkpoint AND let authors get the GUI behavior from IE that they want! Sincerely, Bruce Bailey MSDE DORS @ MRC
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