[dba-Tech] Web Site Problem

On 3/19/07, John Bartow <john at winhaven.net> wrote:
> 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...

Only if you are using IE. FF & Opera don't display the alt tag like
that. That's what the title property if for.

> 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.

Nope, leave it in there. Good accessibility design dictates that all
non-textual data contain an ALT take, and it is recommended that there
be a title tag as well.

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