[thelist] alt and title

Martin Paul Burns martin.burns at uk.ibm.com
Wed Nov 6 11:12:01 CST 2002



Other way about, shurely... (oh, and there's also longdesc which references
a page containing a longer description, and if you're being *really* smart,
then you'll have a wee [d] link next to the item linking to the longdesc
page)

Cheers
Martin

Craig wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ml at kfx []
> Sent: November 6, 2002 11:24 AM

>   Should the alt text and the title text be the same?

No... "title" is best used to describe the object/target, "alt" is best
as a simple text replacement for the image.

Example paraphrased from Joe Clark's "Building Accessible Web sites":
<http://www.joeclark.org/book/>
Say the image is a sunset over a tropical beach with a couple walking
across it and a sail boat in the distance. The alt could be "Sunset over
beach", the "title" could be the former descriptive sentence.







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