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From: Victoria Hamill
Date: Dec 2, 2003 5:02AM





Hi,

I'm a bit uncertain over what to do about the use of ALT tags on images
when catering for Mac users. I'm not sure why, but ALT tags don't show up
on the Mac - is this normal or am I likely to have got something wrong?

The alternative is to use TITLE tags, as they do work, but I'm not sure
about the impact of doing that in terms of screen readers and so on. I
tried having an ALT tag and a TITLE tag just to see what happened, and the
TITLE tag over-wrote the ALT tag.

What is the correct way of using ALT tags? This seems a pretty banal
question, as in theory alt tags are not complicated!
All the literature I've read around accessibility talks about ALT tags and
Long Descriptions, so I suspect it would not be right to replace them with
TITLEs, so how do other people get around the Mac issue??

Thanks

Victoria
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