- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:37:41 +0200
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi Chris, At 22:27 7/08/2009, Chris Reeve wrote: >As it stands, my boss will allow me to adopt H30 Example 5, > ><a href="WMFP.pdf"> >Woodend Music Festival Program ><img src="pdficon.gif" alt="PDF format"/> ></a>, because (PDF), (WORD), (HTML), (TEXT), (ZIP), or other formats >are not a part of the text link. > >They are part of the alt tag. >(...) Actually, the alt attribute value of an image inside a link is considered part of the link text - at least for screen readers - even if it is not directly visible to users who have images turned on in their browsers. Of course, if your boss doesn't know that, I guess you're safe with this technique ;-) Best regards, Christophe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ --- "Better products and services through end-user empowerment" http://www.usem-net.eu/ --- Please don't invite me to LinkedIn, Facebook, Quechup or other "social networks". You may have agreed to their "privacy policy", but I haven't.
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