fine one of the images and press vo-shift-u on it and see what you get.
On Dec 2, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Jed Barton wrote:
alright, try bringing up a links list. I can't seem to do it.
It says link choser menu, but there are no links.
Any thoughts?
On Dec 2, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
Sometimes web developers use images in web pages to depict text,
usually in order to achieve specific typographical or graphical
effects that are not possible when styling HTML text. This is best
avoided where possible, as text in images cannot be restyled to suit
the preferences of the end-user. Usually, images are used only for
special elements of the page like navigation items, buttons, and
headings. But in really bad implementations, developers use them for
body text. That is the case with the scanworcester.com homepage.
One of the ways to put images into an HTML page is to use the IMG
element. When you do that, you're supposed to provide a text
equivalent for the image using the ALT attribute of the image. This
ALT text can be substituted for the image when using a browser that
does not support images, when images are disabled, when images fail
to load, and when browsing the page with a screen reader or aural
browser.
The scanworcester.com homepage developer is misusing the ALT
attribute as an error message in the event that images are disabled.
Rather than specifying a text equivalent for the embedded image, he
is using the ALT text: "Images must be enabled in your browser.
Optimal resolution: 800x600 or greater". In other words, it is the
developer who created that message not VoiceOver or Safari. He or
she apparently does not know the proper purpose of the ALT
attribute, and has only considered the case of images being disabled.
Hope that helps.
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Jed Barton wrote:
Hey guys, alright, got a minor problem.
I'm trying to navigate a sight,
scanworcester.com
It's a live scanner feed where i can use itunes to hear audio.
When i load the sight, it's saying i have to have immages enabled
on my browser.
I went in to voiceover and it said they are enabled. Did i miss
something, perhaps in the browser?
Where should i check to see if they are enabled?
Thanks,
Jed
