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From: Jim Thatcher
Date: Jul 25, 2003 1:29PM

Hi Jon,

I was surprised to read that you view Alt on an AREA as an "inaccessible
technique" - and this apparently because it is not rendered with images off
in Opera. It is rendered with the mouse over in IE and Netscape 4 (but not
Netscape 7 or OPERA, apparently) and it is rendered with HPR and the major
screen readers. Seems to me that that bodes well for the accessibility of
the technique. There are other html coding techniques that are not realized
in the visual browser that I think are fundamental to accessibility, like
the LABEL element, the scope attribute and the header/id combinations, to
mention a few.

Jim
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