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RE: alt text and captions

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From: julian.rickards
Date: Feb 5, 2004 11:14AM

The WAVE tool flags web pages where the alt text and adjacent text are
identical - perhaps this is more of a usability issue rather than an
accessibility issue but if the caption is the same as the alt text, those
with screen readers are going to hear the same text twice.

I would recommend either making one different from the other or use empty
alts.

I saw a similar issue whereby the title attribute had the same content as
the anchor text such as <a href="#" title="Home">Home</a> which again is
redundant.

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Julian Rickards
Digital Publications Distribution Coordinator
Publications Services Section
Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
Phone: (705) 670-5608
Fax: (705) 670-5690


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