Kim Haase wrote: > According to our style guide, yes, screen readers do read the alt text. > The style guide also says that alt text must be 150 characters or fewer > in length. For a description longer than 150 characters, use the > longdesc attribute of the img tag (in HTML; seems to be longdescref in > DITA); this is also read by screen readers.
It sounds like testing accessibility with normal browsers might not be a sure approach. Does anyone know of any open source screen readers? -jean > Kim > > Laura Stewart wrote: > >> On 1/17/07, Bernt M. Johnsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> The HTML standard does not require a browser to show the alt text >>> unless the image cannot be rendered: >>> >>> User agents must render alternate text when they cannot support >>> images, they cannot support a certain image type or when they >>> are configured not to display images. (HTML 4.01) >>> >>> Firefox is a graphical browser and as such does not ahev to display >>> it, while w3m and lynx are text only browsers and "must" render the >>> text. >>> >> >> Are you saying that if I had a screen reader (for people unable to see >> the screen, which is why the alt text is added to the image in the >> first place) that the text would be read by the screen reader, even >> though it doesn't appear when I mouse over the text? >> >>
