John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Mon Mar 19 17:03:56 CDT 2007
Well, more than that. Not only does it act as a tooltip but it acts as a comment behind the graphic, in the html code, so that code readers can decipher the alt text as something meaningful for web readers, etc. Martin posted a good link: www.w3schools.com Also, there are website evaluator programs that will point it out if you don't have alt text entered for accessibility purposes. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 4:31 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Web Site Problem Got it. Like tootips in Access. Thanks you all. Rocky -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 1:11 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Web Site Problem If you got to: http://www.winhaven.net/misc/misc.html Hover your mouse over the little moving musical note graphic link it will show a tooltip saying: A glimpse of what we are listening to... That's alt text. If you turn the graphics off in your browser the alt text should still work. When posting a graphic you can use the alt text to describe the graphic so that that someone with a visual impairment can understand the web page graphics via a reader. The html link looks like this: <img src="images/Note%20moving.gif" alt="A glimpse of what we are listening to..." height="50" width="50" align="middle" border="0"> Actually in the example above I probably shouldn't use alt text because I have a text link right next to it that describes it. Might be irritating to hear that read twice by a machine. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 2:55 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Web Site Problem "Alt text" whuzzat? Rocky -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [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' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Web Site Problem 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. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [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 Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Web Site Problem 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. -- 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!" _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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