- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 03:10:15 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
B.K. DeLong wrote: > I was thinking - is it overly redundant to have both an ALT attribute on > an image and a caption under the image? I would argue that in the situation where you have a caption directly preceding or following the image (in the markup), you are providing enough information even for users that cannot see the image itself. The only difference is that it's not explicitly tied to the image (in the way that the alt attribute would). Additionally, if the image is a thumbnail linking to the full view image, then you'll still need some pretty explicit alt text, as users may just be tabbing from one link to the next - even if the description is in caption text before/after, they may not hear it if only the image itself is linked - this can be solved fairly easily by wrapping both the image and the caption text inside the same link, though: <a href="large.jpg"><img src="small.jpg" alt="" />Photograph of my cat</a> CSS generated content would be an ideal way to solve this: have the text in the alt, and use something like img:after { content: attr(alt); } Unfortunately this is not supported by all browsers. In my humble opinion, anyway...it's a judgement call. -- Patrick H. Lauke _____________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com
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