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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Mar 2, 2010 12:12PM

At 09:51 AM 3/2/2010, Simius Puer wrote:
>Yes, I was quite disappointed to see WCAG 2.0 failing to include limits or
>even guidance on the length, either in the guidelines or the tech.
>
>And Patrick, the 125 was a limit in older versions of Jaws but I don't think
>it is now. The figure of 125 chars didn't come from there...I remember
>reading something about this a few years back. It was not W3C/WCAG but it
>was most certainly accessibility orientated...and as Jared says, there
>really needs to be some common sense regarding the method used.

These days I think we can all agree on 140 chars as the standard unit
of measurement to determine when the Too-Much-Data Point has been reached.

So ALT text should be no more than 1 tweet in length.

LOL, as they say ...


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