RE: alt tag in sliced graphics?

Karin,

my point is if you don't put them in or use techniques that prevent you from
putting them in, you will make your site inaccessible.

Sincerely,

Mike Burks

-----Original Message-----
From: Karin Ransdell [mailto:kransdell(at)squishedmosquito.com]
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 8:32 PM
To: mburks952(at)worldnet.att.net; Lonna Poland; hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
Subject: Re: alt tag in sliced graphics?


Maybe I misread Lorna's question, but I thought she was trying to put the
tags *in*, not leave them out.


----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Burks <mburks952(at)worldnet.att.net>
To: Lonna Poland <lonna(at)granbury.com>; <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 6:32 PM
Subject: RE: alt tag in sliced graphics?


> Lonna,
>
> This of course will make the site inaccessible to people with certain
> disabilities.
>
> Before you get too heavily into leaving out alt tags for whatever reason,
> you might want to take a look at news item on the front page of
> www.icdri.org.  It has to do with a department of justice action in Texas.
> Just a suggestion.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Mike Burks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of Lonna Poland
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 7:06 PM
> To: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
> Subject: alt tag in sliced graphics?
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I recently used Fireworks 2 to slice a large title banner for a client.
> Since the "alt" tag is a very important way to advertise the site for
search
> engines, I always use a descriptive alt tag for the first graphic on the
> page.  Unfortunately, the sliced images don't display an alt tag, and when
I
> tried to put an alt tag in each of the sliced graphics, it didn't show up
on
> mouseover.
>
> Is there a way to do a descriptive alt tag that will show up on sliced
> images?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Lonna
>
> LIGHTNING WEB DESIGNS
> http://www.lightningwebdesigns.com

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