Ineke asked: > When I use alt="" because it is a meaningless picture, the blind user has no idea there is a image in the page. But what to do when > I have to mention who has the copyrights of that meaningless image? There's no real good solutions to this; I would say that if you have image content such as this which _is_ meaningful and _cannot_ be replaced by text, then you probably _should_ put in ALT text which calls attention to the fact it's an image. For example: <div class="image"> <img src="ski034.jpg" alt="(Image of Woman Skiing)" title="Image of Woman Skiing (LongDesc available)" longdesc="longdesc/ski034.html"> <div class="copyright"> Image © Copyright 1999 by Kynn Bartlett </div> </div> Whenever you have a longdesc, you probably _do_ want to point out that it is an image because then the user will expect there is a longdesc. This then makes the copyright notice sensical instead of nonsensical. The longdesc page also should contain the copyright notice. Also, you may want to consider using the HTML rel="copyright" attribute on a <link> or an <a>, although this is not widely supported. I'm not a lawyer, but I am curious if "I clearly encoded the legal requirements within valid markup intended for that purpose -- it's not MY fault his browser didn't display it" would stand up in court. --KynnReceived on Wednesday, 16 January 2002 13:52:34 UTC
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