- From: Carmen Marincu <marincuc@eeng.dcu.ie>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:46:52 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
>As I understood is better to have the ALT text generated automatically. >And even better to have the graphical number (of the counter) composed of >graphics of each digit and than you can have > ><img alt="3" src="three.gif"> <img alt="5" src="five.gif">. > >In the worse case (since most of the cunters are written in Java and they >are very difficult if not even impossible to be made accessible) you >could use alt="Hitcounter". No ofence but in most of the cases the users >don't really benefit from the fact that they know that they are "the >visitor number 34". > >I found Joe Clark's book "Building Accessible Web Sites" very usefull >(examples and everything you need) regarding the issue of how to make you >web site as accessible as possible. > >Hope it helps >Carmen > > >At 19:36 24/04/03, you wrote: > >>I have an interesting question concerning counters. On a counter that >>projects the number of hits as an image normally you would put an alt >>text in the markup that says counter right? How do you make the alt text >>reflect the actual number, though instead of just saying there is a >>counter there. It has to be a sort of dynamic alt text right? So what is >>the code to say this is a counter, number of hits = . . . . If anyone has >>dealt with this before please explain.
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