John S. Britsios wrote:
First of all I would like to thank you all for your kind contribution.
Things got very complicated, because of all pros and conts, so I thought
of having a look again, what W3C recommends.
So I have visited the "HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 1.0" here
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#image-text-equivalent and I was
surprised to find there an example, that is 100% identical to one of the
images of my site.
I have a magnifying glass image for SEO, and W3Cs example there was:
<img src="magnifyingglass.gif" alt="Search">
But you're completely ignoring the context of the image (see my previous
post earlier today discussing the context). In the W3C's example, the
magnifying glass may indeed represent search. In yours, it's an iconic
representation of Search Engine Optimiatisation.
According to their example, and the advice of Joe Clark about titles:
"if |alt| and |title| have the same text, enclose the |title| in
brackets", I thought the best solution could be:
<img src="/images/accessibility.jpg" alt="Accessibility"
title="[Accessibility]" />
Considering the first word immediately following the wheelchair is
"Accessibility", repeating it in the alt attribute is completely
redundant. Joe Clark actually discusses this issue.
http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/Chapter06.html#h2-4840
If you wish to provide a title attribute, I'd stick with that which I
suggested earlier in the thread. But I don't think you really need it
at all, I'd go with an empty alt attribute and no title. For all 4 of
the images representing accessibility, SEO, usability and training.
--
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
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