[thelist] Accessibility, alt, and title

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 16 14:38:38 CDT 2004


erm, take the title off your <a> and copy it into your image?

<a href="foo" title="Click Me!"><img ... alt="Man laying on grass" 
title="Click Me!" /></a>

at least, that's what i do... and it's technically correct, since an 
image can take a title, and that's how a title is supposed to work -- 
it overrides display of the alt...

On 16 Apr 2004 at 11:48, Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:
[...]
> You have this <a href="foo" title="Click Me!"><img ... alt="Man
> laying on grass" /></a>
[...] 
> The issue is the "folks in charge" want an informational message to
> show up in the tip - like "click me" or "special offer blah blah".
> 
> But that can seeminly only be accomplished in IE - the dominant
> browser and the one they really care about - by *improperly* using
> the ALT tag. 
> 
> Does anyone know of a workaround here or do I just abuse the ALT tag
> and the Gecko users get nothing?



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