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Re: Using Brackets around ALT text (Re: Is "this-or-that logo" adequate in an ALT text?)

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From: Timothy J. Luoma
Date: Aug 19, 2002 9:31PM

John Foliot - bytown internet wrote:
> exactly my thinking, except that normal parenthisis () tend to be used for
> items such as asides (I do this all the time) or extensions of thought or
> word, such as: F.B.I (Federal Bureau of Investigation). This is why I asked
> about square brackets instead... I cannot think of a "standard" usage of
> them, yet by employing them in the alt text it achieves the goal of
> differentiating the alt text from regular text.

You're right (I do that too) ... good point... so at some point I'll
have to change them (from () to [])

thx


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