- From: Matt May <mcmay@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 08:38:43 -0800
- To: "John Colby" <John.Colby@uce.ac.uk>
- Cc: 'W3C-WAI-IG List' <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On Dec 2, 2003, at 2:18 AM, John Colby wrote: > So is there a list/site of 'good practice' with ALT? Just how > much/little should one put into an ALT tag, how much in TITLE, and > when should LONGDESC be used? (...) > Reason for the question is that none of the searches I've done say > anything about the content of the various tags (O.K. Attributes) but > concentrate on what they do. Seems that everyone has says that you > have to but no-one has said what to do. The WCAG 1.0 HTML techniques has a fairly large section describing what to do: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#images See also the following resources for more general requirements for alternate text: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-CORE-TECHS/#text-equivalent http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#gl-provide-equivalents http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#images - m
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