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RE: ALT tags vs TITLE tags

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From: Victoria Hamill
Date: Dec 2, 2003 5:55AM






It's hard sometimes to distinguish between a symptom of something, e.g. ALT
tags cause tooltips, and the actual purpose of the function, e.g. ALT tags
provide some alternative text for users who cannot see the image. Hence my
confusion.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Victoria

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It seems that you're looking at using ALT for a tooltip, which is one of
the
things that MS IE does.
ALT attributes are intended to serve as alternative text, not as a tool
tip,
and AFAIK all browsers support the attribute just as they should.
There is no Mac issue with ALT

-Karl