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From: MacKay, Graham (JUS)
Date: Thu, Aug 15 2002 1:28PM
Subject: "alt" text sizing?!
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Hi, I had the following question asked of me today... "Can you change the
size of the text in which that the alt-text appears?" i.e. if you assign
alt text to an IMG, and you hover over the image and view the text, is there
ANY other way to increase the size of this text!? i.e. style sheets, etc.
Anyone who can help, pls email me or the list.
G
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From: Paul Bohman
Date: Thu, Aug 15 2002 1:42PM
Subject: RE: "alt" text sizing?!
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Developers really can't change the behavior of the browser in this
respect. Users, however, may be able to change the settings on their own
computers. For example, in Windows, you can right click on the desk top,
choose properties, appearance, then change the size of tool tips in the
drop-down menu. This will effect all applications on the computer, not
just the browser.
You could come up with some fancy CSS + JavaScript method of imitating
tool tip popups with mouseover scripts and CSS layers, which would give
you a lot of control, but this is unnecessary and probably not a very
good idea for most things, since these would be imitation alt "tags",
not the real alt text that goes with images. I don't personally know of
any other method.
In truth, browsers really shouldn't have a popup tool tip for alt text
at all. They could have a tool tip for the "title" attribute, but alt
text is meant to be hidden. Netscape 6 and 7, and Opera handle this
correctly. Internet Explorer continues to show the tool tip popup.
Paul Bohman
Technology Coordinator
WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind)
www.webaim.org
Center for Persons with Disabilities
www.cpd.usu.edu
Utah State University
www.usu.edu
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From: MacKay, Graham (JUS) [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:22 PM
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Subject: "alt" text sizing?!
Hi, I had the following question asked of me today... "Can you change
the
size of the text in which that the alt-text appears?" i.e. if you
assign
alt text to an IMG, and you hover over the image and view the text, is
there
ANY other way to increase the size of this text!? i.e. style sheets,
etc.
Anyone who can help, pls email me or the list.
G
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From: Michael R. Burks
Date: Thu, Aug 15 2002 3:03PM
Subject: RE: "alt" text sizing?!
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I prefer the pop up tool tip.
It helps me enormously, I am not blind but I am vision impaired, and I do
not like it when the browser does not pop the tool tip.
Sincerely,
Mike Burks
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From: Paul Bohman [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:39 PM
To: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
Subject: RE: "alt" text sizing?!
Developers really can't change the behavior of the browser in this
respect. Users, however, may be able to change the settings on their own
computers. For example, in Windows, you can right click on the desk top,
choose properties, appearance, then change the size of tool tips in the
drop-down menu. This will effect all applications on the computer, not
just the browser.
You could come up with some fancy CSS + JavaScript method of imitating
tool tip popups with mouseover scripts and CSS layers, which would give
you a lot of control, but this is unnecessary and probably not a very
good idea for most things, since these would be imitation alt "tags",
not the real alt text that goes with images. I don't personally know of
any other method.
In truth, browsers really shouldn't have a popup tool tip for alt text
at all. They could have a tool tip for the "title" attribute, but alt
text is meant to be hidden. Netscape 6 and 7, and Opera handle this
correctly. Internet Explorer continues to show the tool tip popup.
Paul Bohman
Technology Coordinator
WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind)
www.webaim.org
Center for Persons with Disabilities
www.cpd.usu.edu
Utah State University
www.usu.edu
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From: MacKay, Graham (JUS) [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:22 PM
To: ' = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = '
Subject: "alt" text sizing?!
Hi, I had the following question asked of me today... "Can you change
the
size of the text in which that the alt-text appears?" i.e. if you
assign
alt text to an IMG, and you hover over the image and view the text, is
there
ANY other way to increase the size of this text!? i.e. style sheets,
etc.
Anyone who can help, pls email me or the list.
G
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