[dba-Tech] Web Site Problem

Oh-my-gosh, you are correct sir!

Here I've been checking with 3 browsers all this time and never noticed
that.

I changed the Red Musical Note gif and hyperlink on :
http://www.winhaven.net/misc/misc.html

to:
<a title="A glimpse of what we are listening to..."
href="motw/MusicOfTheWeek.html"><img src="images/Note%20moving.gif"
alt="Musical Note" height="50" width="50" align="middle" border="0"
longdesc="Streaming music"></a>

I just checked with all 3 browsers.
IE 7 displays the alt tag if there is one or the title tag if there is not
an alt tag (shouldn't it be the other way around?!)
FF 2 displays the title tag
Opera 9 displays the title tag (and if the status bar is hidden it displays
the href tag - nice feature)

The odd thing is that FP 2003 has a button labeled "ScreenTip" which inserts
the title tag - which FP2003 states is supported in IE 4 and above. But IE 7
doesn't display the title tag if there is an alt tag - it instead displays
the alt tag. Another IE non-standard feature?


-----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 8:28 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:
> 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.

--
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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