- From: Andrew Kirkpatrick <andrew_kirkpatrick@wgbh.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 11:45:47 -0400
- To: "Scarlett Julian (ED)" <Julian.Scarlett@sheffield.gov.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Validates fine with (and without) the alt attribute. JAWS will read title
or alt, but I find it easier to tell developers that when they use an image,
they always use alt.
code starts...
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
/>
<title>form test</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="foo" method="get">
<input type="text" name="foo" />
<input type="image" src="image.gif" name="foo" value="foo" alt="submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
...code ends.
On 5/24/02 11:19 AM, Scarlett Julian (ED)
(Julian.Scarlett@sheffield.gov.uk) wrote:
> <input type="image" src="foo.gif" alt="submit" width="50"
>> height="20" />
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