alt text & punctuation - best practice?

Hi all,

I am working with some guidelines on alt text and just wanted to see
what people feel is current best practice with regard to adding
punctuation to force a pause - for example, in these situations what
would be the preferred technique?

1. For short alt text on an image which may or may not be a link:

Either, just the text, no extra punctuation:

<a href="news.html"><img src="news.gif" alt="News"></a>

Or with full stop and space, like so:

<a href="news.html"><img src="news.gif" alt="News. "></a>


2. For longer alt text which should read like a sentence:

Either:

<img src="w3.gif" alt="W3C leading the web to its full potential">

Or:

<img src="w3.gif" alt="W3C leading the web to its full potential. ">


3. For alt text on an image which functions as a section heading:

Either:

<h2><img src="about.gif" alt="About the council"></h2>

Or:

<h2><img src="about.gif" alt="About the council. "></h2>


Cheers all,


Rebecca Cox
Production Designer
 
INTERGEN - Intelligent Business
Level 3, Intergen House, 44-52 The Terrace
PO Box 5428, Wellington, New Zealand

Received on Sunday, 20 June 2004 22:39:24 UTC