OK everybody. Now back to reality.
He is a real world testing scenario:
I asked a novice/intermediate(?) Internet user without any known
disabilities to test a demo page I have created for that purpose (with
graphics rendered as background in CSS), and therefore no alt text
attributes available, and her first question was: "What do those symbols
mean?" .
And she continued: John, and why when I go over the graphics, those
little yellow boxes don't appear? I saw that often on other pages, were
they explain what the graphics are about.
To this point, I wanted to add here, that not only experienced users are
welcome to request any of our services. While to be specific, our tester
was a paralegal secretary, and she have requested our services a while
ago, for building a web site for the lawyers company she is working
with. So I think I cannot consider such employees for example,
non-targeted group, or?
So, far I still think it would be appropriate to modify the alt
attributes as in previous mails suggested, but for a long description
(not longdesc though), I am still not sure about that.
What do you think now?
Thanks again for your kind feedbacks.
Best,
John
David Dixon wrote:
It would be true if this was a page explaining symbols. As it stands,
though, the purpose of those images is purely an aesthetic
enhancement to accompany the text. They serve no purpose.
But whatever. It's obvious that until you ascribe meaning to those
images, we won't agree on this.
You're probably right, unless we agree as the purpose of the image
(aesthetic or symbolic) then we'll probably just end up arguing our
cases to verbatim.
It would be useful to get a few more opinions on what others believe
the purpose is, although in the end, I think John, its down to you to
decide which camp these images sit in. Not an easy decision based on
the too and fro that been going on here though :)
Cheers,
David.
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