- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:33:02 -0800
- To: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@home.com>
- Cc: "Frank Tobin" <ftobin@uiuc.edu>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 06:21 AM 1/25/2001 , David Poehlman wrote: >please don't use the word picture in a title for an image. we already >know it is an image. (Kynn wrote:) >They should have ALT="" if they are -purely- visual decoration. >You can use TITLE="Picture of a bird on a branch" or the >LONGDESC attribute if you need to add further explanation to these >images. Actually, I would say that using that in title _is_ appropriate, as it's a statement of what purpose and function the element serves on the page. "Picture of..." should never be in ALT but I think it is very appropriate for TITLE of an image. Frank, as you can see, there is often some disagreement about how best to mark up certain parts of a web page. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Technical Developer Relations, Reef http://www.reef.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://idyllmtn.com/ Contributor, Special Ed. Using XHTML http://kynn.com/+seuxhtml Unofficial Section 508 Checklist http://kynn.com/+section508
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