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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: Jim Thatcher
Date: Aug 20, 2002 9:33AM

When you use [ ] around the alt text, it will appear as [[alt text content]]
in the IBM Home Page Reader text view because HPR uses those square brackets
in its text view to visually set image information from other text.

Luckily screen readers don't normally speak those brackets.

Jim
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From: Timothy J. Luoma [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 11:23 PM
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Subject: Re: Using Brackets around ALT text (Re: Is "this-or-that logo"
adequate in an ALT text?)


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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