- From: jonathan chetwynd <jonathan@signbrowser.free-online.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:28:27 -0000
- To: <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Al Gilman has advised me that you are the appropriate group to consider switching off alt tags. I posted this: >Text labels tend to just pop up, if one can turn them off in IE4 or NN >please let me [...] know? originally to w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org I am a teacher of adults with learning difficulties few of whom can read. It is hard to find sites without text and even then the alt tags are very confusing. Please contact me for further clarification jonathan chetwynd jay@peepo.com SignBrowser Al Gilman's response: At 09:19 PM 3/3/99 +0000, jonathan chetwynd wrote on w3c-wai-er-ig: >Text labels tend to just pop up, if one can turn them off in IE4 or NN >please let me [...] know? This would seem to be an issue to address in the User Agent guidelines. In the current draft User Agent guidelines it says the user should be able to turn off animated or blinking text. But you may need to work with them to get this clarified so it is clear it applies to the popup [=animated] display of TITLE and/or ALT attributes as is now common. Techniques for User Agent Accessibility Guidelines <http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19990210/wai-useragent-tech#tech- on-off-blinking-text> Al
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