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Re: Complication of the alt text issue

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From: Mark Rew
Date: Mar 14, 2002 12:23PM

I hope I'm not missing the point here with my following comments.

If an alt tag is empty (alt=" ") some type of color, yellow, or highlight
shows on the screen when the mouse is moved over the graphic? Well if the alt
tag is null (alt="") nothing should appear on the screen, but screen readers
will skip the graphic without trying to say the graphic file address.

I started out advising my developers to use NULL alt tags until a sighted
person told me there was value in using the empty alt tag to track when the
mouse is moving over the graphic.

Mark Rew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leo Smith" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 2:05 PM
Subject: RE: Complication of the alt text issue


> Therefore allowing you to provide alt text that doesn't show up as a
> tooltip in IE6 if the designer is *so* against that:
>
> <img src="image.gif" width="180" height="39" alt="nothing will
> show as a tooltip in IE6" title="">
>
> Of course, this doesn't then allow you to use the title attribute for
> useful content, as it must remain empty.
>
> Leo.
>
> On 12 Mar 2002, at 21:10, John Foliot - bytown internet wrote:
>
> > Actually, in IE 6 the Title overrides the Alt text as the "tool tip"
>
>
>
> Leo Smith
> Web Designer/Developer
> USM Office of Publications and Marketing
> University of Southern Maine
> 207-780-4774
>
>
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