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Re: Alt Tags length and Content

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From: JAMESICUS@aol.com
Date: Aug 5, 2003 11:41PM

In a previous post I wrote:

<<<<<
The W3C provides an example of alt text for icons on their WCAG page .....
>>>>>

..... and that was a laudable example. Another nice example of alt text usage
can be found on the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) page .....

http://www.w3.org/wai/

..... wherein the Web Accessibility Initiative logo image is accompanied by
the alt text: "Web Accessibility Initiative logo"

However, the W3C is not itself always so circumspect. For instance, on their
Amaya page .....

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

..... The Amaya tree header image is accompanied by the alt text: "Amaya" and
the 'books on bookshelf ' header image is accompanied by the alt text:
"using" (the same image bears the alt text "Documentation" further down the page)
-- neither of these alt texts are very helpful