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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: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Aug 20, 2002 2:36PM

OK Jim, but is this *good* or *bad*? Most users of HPR don't read it, they
hear it, and as you have noted screen readers *generally* don't read out
loud the square brackets.

What I suggest replicates what HPR does for written output - enclose alt
text in a container which differentiates it's content from other text which
may surround the image (in fact, that's where I got the idea). Is [[image
alt]] annoying, intrusive, or cause problems for assistive technologies and
their users? Seems not.

JF

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