RE: alt-text idea...

We will add this item to the guidelines.  I am not sure what priority we
will give it for implementation.
Jon


At 11:38 AM 6/14/98 -0500, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:
>This is a powerful safetynet type of idea - but we have to be
>careful in implementation or this could cause a LOT of extra web
>traffic.  and slow page loading...   if every page without alt
>text does a fetch of the title for each of the links on the page.
>
>However, if we set it up so that it is not done automatically it
>should be fine.    That is, if it were a user option or done on
>user request.    Then the titles would only be fetched if the
>user was looking at blank image anchors and had no idea what they
>pointed to.    No substitute for ALT, but a very nice safety net.
>
>So this would really be a UA issue primarily - with titles being
>important for it to work.   So I will post this (separately) over
>there.
>
>Gregg
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: w3c-wai-au-request@w3.org
>[mailto:w3c-wai-au-request@w3.org]On
>Behalf Of Jan Richards
>Sent: Thursday, June 11, 1998 1:48 PM
>To: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
>Subject: Re: alt-text idea...
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I agree. It may be a good last chance solution for browsers but
>it
>shouldn't become an ALT text substitute.  We may howeve want to
>emphasize good TITLE-ing of documents within authoring tools.
>
>- Jan
>
>William Loughborough wrote:
>>
>> Ian sends from Wendy: "Another possible use of the TITLE
>element is to
>> provide alt-text for images used as linke to pages when authors
>don't
>> provide alt-text.  In this case, a brower could grab the
>contents of the
>> TITLE element of the document being pointed to and use this as
>the
>> alt-text."
>>
>> WL:: I don't think this is the venue for this because: 1) it
>doesn't
>> deal with authoring *Tool* possibilities, rather is mainly for
>browsers;
>> 2) it's not likely to "provide [USEFUL] alt-text for images..."
>since
>> the TITLE isn't apt to give much info about any particular IMG.
>> --
>> Love.
>>             ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
>> http://dicomp.pair.com
> 
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