- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:35:31 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Paul Novitski wrote: > At 02:11 PM 3/14/2006, David Woolley wrote: >> What's wrong with: >> <h1><img src="logo.jpg" alt="Acme Widgets"></h1> > > I would assume that, in the case of a browser with images turned off, > this would display nothing. No, the browser should normally display the ALT text if you disable the loading of images in the preferences. > I also have doubts that a search engine > would index the alt as being the content of the headline; I'll poke > around on Google for evidence of that. I was under the impression that they would, as that makes logical sense from a markup point of view. Incidentally, JAWS (and presumably other screen readers with the same functionality) correctly shows the ALT when accessing the list of headings in this case. P -- 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 __________________________________________________________ Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ __________________________________________________________
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