I accidentally sent a private reply to Russell when I meant to reply to the list. Apologies to Russell. Here is the reply I sent:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 07:51:15AM -0600, russellb...@gmail.com wrote: > newyorker.com is one of the few websites that takes seriously alts for > its images (if you don't know, an image tag is allowed to have > alternative text that a browser can display if it can't, or won't, the > image - who but we lynxsters read them?) Unfortunately, graphical browsers generally display alt text when you mouse over an image, with the result that most web pages that provide alt text misuse it to provide additional information on mouseover instead of its intended purpose, meaning that lynx users end up seeing text that is totally meaningless out of the context of the image it replaces. Often this meaningless text appears in the middle of a sentence, causing the sentence to look like gibberish. I'm sure this is even more confusing to blind users than it is to me, since I can usually see where the alt text starts and ends. Chuck _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
