Christian,

Title overrules the alt if both are given... and you can always add an alt
and title for extra (!) usability. so if you're a keyboard user, you know
you can miss some information, but that's something you choose for.

2008/10/19 Christian Heilmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Lourens Thalen wrote:
>
>> I hope you're not mixing up the title attribute with the alt(ernative)
>> attribute?
>>
>> If you're sure, could you please send an example?
>>
>>
> Well IE does show the alternative text when you roll over an image, which
> is very annoying as it makes people write text for visual display instead of
> text alternatives for when the image is not available or cannot be seen.
>
> Both the (wrong) alt display and the title attribute are not safe for
> conveying information, think of keyboard users.
>
>


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