RE: alt tag in sliced graphics?
by =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= Bergeron <stephberg(at)videotron.ca>
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Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:45:35 -0400 |
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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!
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>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=20
non-meaningful images, the ALT attributes should be left empty (but should=
=20
be there anyway). That way a text to speech browser will ignore them. Is=
=20
that what you did? If so, you're fine.
St=E9phane Bergeron
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