FW: Need some help (Alt text and descriptions)

Gregg

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-----Original Message-----
From:	Greg Lowney [SMTP:greglo@microsoft.com]
Sent:	Thursday, July 17, 1997 12:07 PM
To:	'uaccess-l@trace.wisc.edu'; Gregg Vanderheiden
Subject:	RE: Need some help  (Alt text and descriptions)

The ALT attribute is exposed through Active Accessibility as the Name property of the object, and the TITLE attribute is exposed as the Description property of the object. These are not necessarily always how they are used, but they were the best corresponding properties available.  Screen readers are free to present these as they feel fit.

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From:  po@trace.wisc.edu[SMTP:po@trace.wisc.edu] on behalf of Gregg Vanderheiden
Sent:  Wednesday, July 16, 1997 11:08 PM
To:  'uaccess-l@trace.wisc.edu'
Subject:  RE: Need some help  (Alt text and descriptions)

Oops - I missed this one in my summary a minute ago.

I wonder what all would be displayed to a screen reader when they hit this

Chuck??  What would it be in IE

Gregg

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Professor - Dept of Industrial Engineering
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-----Original Message-----
From:	Charles (Chuck) Oppermann [SMTP:chuckop@MICROSOFT.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, July 16, 1997 11:57 AM
To:	Multiple recipients of list
Subject:	RE: Need some help  (Alt text and descriptions)

HTML 4.0 has the TITLE= attribute that can be used for the purpose that
ALT is used for now.  TITLE can be used for descriptive text, whereas
ALT can go back to being an textual representation of a image (it's
original purpose).

So a picture of a red ball that says "click me" could be as follows:

<IMG SRC="redball.gif" ALT="red ball with words click me printed"
TITLE="Click here to access site">

Received on Monday, 21 July 1997 14:08:39 UTC