Re: alt tag in sliced graphics?

by Honeywebster(at)aol.com

 Date:  Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:58:35 EDT
 To:  hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
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Loona-
My experience with alt tags (not necessarily in Fireworks but placed with any 
program or by hand code) is when you slice an image, you only have a fixed 
area for that slice. So if your tag is more than a few letters, it may not be 
DISPLAYED entirely.

It would be interesting to ask if the computers that are set up for blind 
users, that read tags, would be affected by that. Perhaps, they can still 
read the entire word. I have heard that alt tags are used by SOME search 
engines; the search engine topic itself very deep and varied how they work.

You can have your site reviewed by
http://www.bobby.org/
to see if it complies with disability issues.

Here is a great site by a friend of mine that is a page of resources. She has 
about a dozen sites/articles listed about search engines that may contain 
some answers to your questions.

Janet
Electronic Portfolio:
http://members.aol.com/honeywebster

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