- From: James Aylett <sja20@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 23:50:25 +0100 (BST)
- To: Foteos Macrides <MACRIDES@SCI.WFBR.EDU>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Foteos Macrides answered my question about the ALT
attribute to the AREA tag (rather completely :-) ...
> Lynx, and in theory other text clients and GUIs with image loading
> turned off, use that as the link name in a menu of links for the HREFs
> of the AREA tags. The ALT strings should describe the links. For
> example, if your MAP is of the United States and the links return
> information concerning each state. the ALT strings could be the names
> of the states.
This still, however, doesn't explain why ALT is #REQUIRED here, whereas it
is #IMPLIED for the IMG tag. Surely if it's #REQUIRED in one context, it
should be in all such?
James
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