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Re: Alt text (was VIKI - text transcodeing)

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 22, 2007 3:40PM

John Foliot - Stanford Online Accessibility Program wrote:

> Perhaps others on the list could chime in with other ideas? In the absence
> of text-only browsers rendering alternative text "differently" from standard
> page text, is there a best practice? Is there a recommendation that
> user-groups could advocate to developers of such tools? Is it something
> that we as content developers should even worry about?

Not sure if this would work universally, but: avoid inline images
wherever possible and instead put them in their own block-level element?

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Patrick H. Lauke