- From: Neal Ewers <ewers@tracecenter.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:32:55 -0600
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Hello, If a screen reader presents the user with information about a link containing alt-text by trapping for both the alt and the title attribute s, which should it render to the user? One might assume that if the title attribute is used correctly and actually presents more information than the alt-text, that the title tag should be rendered instead. But, there are always the odd situations where this would not work. See, for example, the URL to the W3C Slide maker Tool at http://www.w3.org/Talks/slidemaker/YYMMsub/Overview.html Click on "Introduction and you will find that the alt-text presents the "Previous" and "Next" options while the title tag gives the title of the next slide (ex. "On to 'title_of_next_slide'" and "Back to 'title_of_previous_slide'"). In this case, because it is a good example of the use of the title attribute, if the user agent is simply rendering the title tags, no information is lost. What would happen, however, if the title attribute only included the title of the next and previous slides? In this case, navigation function would be lost if the user agent did not render the alt-text. Does this speak to having a user preference for selecting which is rendered, or is there some more appropriate solution here? Thanks for your comments. Neal Ewers Trace Research and Development Center 5901 Research Park Blvd. Madison, WI 53719 Phone: (608) 263-5485 FAX: (608) 262-8848 E-mail: ewers@tracecenter.org Web site: http://www.trace.wisc.edu
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