Re: alt tag in sliced graphics?

Stephane,

When you say empty do you mean ... <img alt src="thispic.gif"> or do you
mean <img alt="" src="thispic.gif">

John
----- Original Message -----
From: St�phane Bergeron <stephberg(at)videotron.ca>
To: <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 6:45 AM
Subject: RE: alt tag in sliced graphics?


At 12:37 PM 16/09/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Thank you everyone for your advice in this discussion.  I finally tried
>filling in the alt tag on every one of the sliced graphics and the "shim"
>graphics also.  It didn't work when I just used one or two alt tags but
when
>all were filled in it worked great!
>
>Now when you put the mouse over any section of the large graphic the alt
>text is clearly visible.  However, I'm thinking that a visually impaired
>person might find it annoying if their talking computer read each of the
alt
>tags in sequence.

What did you put in the ALT attributes?  For shim images and other
non-meaningful images, the ALT attributes should be left empty (but should
be there anyway).  That way a text to speech browser will ignore them.  Is
that what you did? If so, you're fine.

St�phane Bergeron

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