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RE: Is "this-or-that logo" adequate in an ALT text?

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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Aug 20, 2002 4:04AM

Oh please do avoid using "Link To..." in your alt text.

At least one screen reading technology (JAWS) will identify a hyperlink by
saying "Link", thus what you hear is "Link, link to foo", "Link, link to
bar", etc. Also, using JAWS, users can call up and search a list of links
on any given page, a "quick scan" as it were of the links from your page.
This list can be searched (by the Text or Alt Text inclosed within the <a>
tags); if every link starts with "Link to" it negates this useful fuction.

JF

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