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RE: alt text and captions

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From: julian.rickards@ndm.gov.on.ca
Date: Feb 10, 2004 7:49AM

I know that content may be added to as you had shown in your example:

img:after {content: "additional content: ")

and I too agree that content should be in the HTML, not in the CSS as in my
example above. The technique I demonstrated simply made existing content in
the HTML more visible. As many of you know, the tooltip behaviour of IE with
regard to Alt text is contrary to the HTML guidelines but for those users,
this behaviour does allow them to see the alt text in addition to the
graphic.

The reason I thought this technique and CSS property might be of interest is
that it allows captioning without any additional content.

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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


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dierickx, Len [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]


> This can be useful but I would prefer that the content
> remains in the HTML
> file because stylesheets can be disabled.
> That way the content would never reach the HTML file and would not be
> accessible for text browsers.


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