- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:00:31 -0500 (EST)
- To: WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I recommend no more than 1K for alt text, but there could be cases where more is justifiable. <http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/Chapter06.html#p-905> (My advice there could stand updating based on recent browser history, as we shall see.) The following reasoning, however, does not make sense: > Opera (and probably other browsers) will try to honor a layout > (or stylesheet) even when graphics are turned off. Well, they shouldn't. The Mozilla/Safari method of simply styling the alt text without bounding box for an image that isn't there in the first place makes more sense. Hence, in a clear example, <h1><img></h1> will be styled as an <h1> if <img> is absent. There is no bounding box for the image that isn't there. Opera's (and other browsers') method is arguably incorrect. It could be a selectable preference, though. And in any event, visual rendering of alt text is a rather extraneous issue for *most* readers who rely on alt text. A user agent should always make it possible to read the full alt. IIRC, IE on Windows lets you choose that very option. -- Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org Author, _Building Accessible Websites_ <http://joeclark.org/access/> | <http://joeclark.org/book/>
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