- From: C.Bottelier <c.bottelier@ITsec.nl>
- Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:11:08 +0100
- To: Gerard Torenvliet <g_torenvliet@sympatico.ca>
- CC: "'Jim Ley'" <jim@jibbering.com>, WAI Mailing List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> 2. You are certainly not unique in misunderstanding icons; this is a broad > usability issue with overly graphical nature of many web sites and > applications. However, I'm still uncomfortable with using Alt text (which > is a text equivalent) to convey the *meaning* of an icon (which is a text > interpretation) when the Title tag is available for this purpose. Maybe a tutorial, set of definitions, guidelines or pointers on the W3C site that one can use to create correct ALT and TITLE contents. Christian
Received on Tuesday, 4 February 2003 11:11:17 UTC