[dba-Tech] Web Site Problem

Its the text equivelent to a graphic. The alternative text for exampel if someone had images turned of in the browser. ALT="The text" part of the attribute to an IMG (image tag)
 
The rules are everytime you use a graphic or other non text element you always provide and alternative.
 
www.w3schools.com Good tutorial on HTML
 
Martin
 
Martin WP Reid
Training and Assessment Unit
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Belfast
 
tel: 02890 974477
 

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com on behalf of Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software
Sent: Mon 19/03/2007 19:55
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Web Site Problem



"Alt text"  whuzzat?

Rocky





       
       

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 12:40 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
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Alt text should take care of the accessibility problem. I always place alt
for photos and such. Should work the same for fancy text graphics too.

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Carbonnell
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 12:22 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
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On 3/19/07, John Bartow <john at winhaven.net> wrote:
> Rocky,
> A good  guideline for basic web design - design to the lowest common
> denominator. Not all computers will have the fonts you have. You can
> usually assume that the standard windows and Mac fonts are installed.
> If you want to use a font for stylistic reasons you need to post it in
> a format that doesn't require the user to have the font installed.
> Some examples would be .jpg, .gif, .png, .pdf, .swf

Careful with that though. You lose accessibility for visually impaired folks
that use screen readers unless you design the page very carefully.

> Send us a link and maybe we can figure out the sound issue.

Sounds like IE is calling WMP as a helper app to play the wav file.

To embed it in the page so that it plays like the pages you've seen Rocky,
you need to look at the embed HTML tag. Just make sure that you display the
play/pause controls so that folks can kill the audio if they want to.
Nothing like listening to rock MP3s and then hitting a website with some
light peppy embeded audio with no controls.

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Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved
body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a
great ride!"
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