- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:18:05 -0000
- To: "WAI \(E-mail\)" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
"SHARPE, Ian" <Ian.SHARPE@cambridge.sema.slb.com> > Don't like it I'm affraid. From a visually impared point of view I would > simply think that the page creator had forgotten to alt tag the image. There > is no way for me to know that the two links are actually the same. I would > just see the cursor change to a hand indicating a link but no hover text > which I rely on when using images as links. > <img src="image.gif" alt="" onclick="document.location='newpage.html';"> > <a href="newpage.html">Link Text</a> This would not cause the cursor to change to a hand in any current browser/AT I know of, certainly future AT's would hopefully make available the fact an onclick existed on the image. document.location is also not an appropriate way of changing location. location is normally a property of a window object, not a document. Jim.
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