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From: Despain, Dallas
Date: Apr 1, 2010 9:48PM

A client has an image (with text) for a website banner and instead of putting alt text on the image, they have used the title attribute (title="text of image"). I know it's a bad idea, but how do I best explain it to the client? I tested in JAWS 10/11 with both Firefox 3.6 and IE 8. In all my tests the banner was announced correctly. Are there other reasons I can use to explain why this is a bad idea? Do older screen readers have problems with this?



Thanks,

Dallas