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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