Re: Image Galleries, Alt vs caption.

I'm not certain, but if the images are links, alt will probably be the only 
value expressed by a screen reader through tabbing.  Without links, either 
way, we have to crawl the page.

Johnnie Apple Seed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Smith" <matt@kbc.net.au>
To: <bkdelong@pobox.com>
Cc: "WAI Interest Group" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: Image Galleries, Alt vs caption.



B.K. DeLong wrote:
<blockquote>
> I was thinking - is it overly redundant to have both an ALT attribute on
> an image and a caption under the image? Most users will see the one
> caption. But wouldn't a screenreader potentially read both? Is there a
> valid way to associate a caption with an image? Is the table solution
> more logical in this casE?
</blockquote>

I wrote a Perl/MySQL based image gallery system 18 months or so ago.  You 
can
see some of the HTML it puts out here:
<http://new.coppervale.cx/stuff/gallery>

I know the code's a bit broken, but this may give you an idea.

Cheers

M

-- 
Matthew Smith
Kadina Business Consultancy
South Australia
http://www.kbc.net.au

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