- From: McCain, Tom <tmccain@butler.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:04:43 -0500
- To: "'Bruce Bailey'" <bbailey@clark.net>, Web Accessibility Initiative <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Thanks for responding, Bruce. Using an empty TITLE attribute in the IMG tag to suppress tooltips does indeed work with MSIE, which suits my wife's client for the moment. By the way, we tested with MSIE 4, 4.5 and 5 on Windows. Pop-up tooltips still block rollover effects on Netscape, though, (correct me if I'm wrong about that!) and designers are still likely to avoid alt text because of that. I mentioned that we designed past that issue on one site by making the rollover effect appear in a different part of the page than the pop-up tooltip. Personally as a graphic designer, I enjoy including that kind of "thinking through the design" in my gestation process when working on a site but this whole issue will take a lot of education with web designers in general. tom mcCain Butler University / Indianapolis, Indiana USA http://trevor.butler.edu/~tmccain 317 940-8138
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