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From: Keith Parks
Date: May 5, 2009 3:00PM

On May 5, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Jared Smith wrote:

> So in the example you posted, as long as the necessary information to
> make the image accessible is provided in the alt text, then you can
> provide whatever other advisory information in the title attribute.
>
> I would add the title attribute to either the link or the image. In
> this case, the title seems to be more associated with the image rather
> than the link.

First off, Jared probably knows more than I do. Nevertheless...

Seems to me that, while you *could* add the Title to either element,
having a Title on the link would be more helpful. While it looks like
from your code that it links to the Helping Hands Ministry (hhm.php),
and by convention a logo image is often a link to an organization's
home page, stating this specifically in the link Title is to me the
kind of "advisory information" it is useful to have.

<a href="hhm.php" title="link to the Helping Hands Ministry site"
tabindex="4">

So what I'm also saying is that your current title that is on the
image I would *not* recommend be also applied *as is* to the link.

My 2¢.

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