[thelist] Site Check

[Paul Backhouse]

Matt, Paul, Jay, The Optimizer,

thank V.much - this was much more like the constructive help i was after.
I will - form now on use alt tags always - i normally used on all images
that were clickable or of some relevance - but now i will place them on
everything - ta V.much

Paul - i had the same reservations as you - but, i get over powered by the
project managers in these areas and designers - i ve mentioned a few times
about if people will realise - but in fairness - they do look like arrows -
and well - suppose thats supposed to be the bit that makes you try and roll
over them.

The popup issue - me too - sort of a natural reaction now to close all pop
up windows - but thats how the sitewas specifically designed - i like the
way it works - but i can see how its confusing - which window do you look
at??

it supposed to be the pop up one.

thanks V.much for the site check aswell

cheers

paul

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Matt
Sent: 07 November 2001 16:53
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Subject: Re: [thelist] Site Check


At this point the chief advantage is for blind or sight-impaired users who
may
be using a device which converts text-to-speech. By having an Alt tag, a
"logo"
image, for instance", would read to them as "Logo", or if you had a gif
which
had an ALT of "click "continue" to complete order", that would be spoken
tothe
user.

The original use, I believe ,was so that you woulds know what the images
were
if they were taking a long time to load, but as connection speeds increae
that's less and less relevant. I believe the ALT tag is one of the
requirements
of the "Accessibility" regulations which require all government site to be
usable by the disabled, but someone else probably knows more about this.

Matt

Paul Backhouse wrote:

> but why? what advantage/disadvantage is/are there?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of MRC
> Sent: 07 November 2001 16:28
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Site Check
>
> Paul,
>
> > wheres the rule that says i need to put an alt tag on every image?
>
>     Actually, the alt attribute on <img> and <area> elements is one of the
> few attributes that are actually *required* by the W3C HTML 4.01
> recommendation [1]. If an image doesn't merit descriptive text (e.g., a
> transparent gif, a bullet-point image, etc.), you should use an empty
string
> as the value of the alt attribute, i.e., alt="" (and not alt=" ", as some
> might recommend).
>
> James Aylard
>
> 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#adef-alt
>
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