[thelist] alt and title

Saila, Craig Craig.Saila at bgminteractive.com
Wed Nov 6 10:36:02 CST 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ml at kfx [mailto:ml at kfxdesign.net]
> 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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Cheers,

Craig Saila
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