- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:47:08 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Can anyone tell, how many characters including spaces can an ALT tag = > have? None in HTML, as there is no such element. There is no formal limit on the number in an alt attribute, but you are probably misusing the attribute if you have a large number. There are, however, cases where a large number might be technically correct, although one maybe ought to consider whether the text should be explicit text, in those cases. The example I'm thinking of would be a pie chart, where one might need to list the values for each sector (although not the colours, and only if a visual user would be expected to look in that much detail). However, providing the data as an explicit table, would allow the user to copy it into a spreadsheet, etc. > I heard max. 60, while JAWS can read only 60. That's probably a good heuristic for rejecting keyword stuffing, in real world web pages.
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