RE: alt tag in sliced graphics?

At 10:45 PM 15/09/00 -0500, you wrote:
>You read my mind.  I was just thinking about perhaps making a tiny
>transparent gif with an alt tag.  However, I don't know how to make it
>overlap the large sliced graphic, but only thought about putting it before
>of the javascript that Fireworks made for the sliced graphic on the page.
>Do you have any ideas about how to make the invisible graphic overlap the
>sliced one?

You don't need anything this complicated.  You just have to add ALT text to=
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one of the image tags in the sliced graphic (maybe the most important image=
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or the first one) and add empty ALT attributes (yes they are ALT=20
*attributes* of the IMG tag, not ALT *tags*...) to all the other images in=
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the sliced graphic as well as to any other image on the page that doesn't=20
carry any special meaning like transparent GIFs, table corner graphics or=20
whatever.  This takes those images out of the page's flow in text only=20
browsers like Lynx or text to speech readers.  Images without ALT=20
attributes come up as annoying [Image] within the text flow in Lynx and=20
probably throw off text to speech browsers in some way as well.  What's=20
even more annoying is when designers put the image's file name (and/or=20
size) in ALT attributes.  Imagine having that read aloud to you for every=20
image...

Btw, Lynx is a great browser to check your pages for accessibility.  If=20
your pages are legible in Lynx, chances are they'll be fine in a text to=20
speech browser as well.

HTH!

St=E9phane Bergeron

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