hi sherry let me make a few points to help you
first of all, alt is not a tag, it's an attribute secondly, alt is NOT a tooltip just because some stupid browser company stupidly took it upon themselves to make their stupid browser display the contents of the alt attribute when you mouse over an image does NOT imply that this is correct behaviour or that other browsers should do the same the alt attribute's single purpose is to provide information WHEN THE IMAGE IS MISSING sorry, i'm not shouting at you, i'm angry at the browser companies you want tooltips? use the title attribute in fact, the alt and title attributes can, and often should, have different contents if the image really carries no information at all, like a spacer gif, the you should declare an empty alt attribute, i.e. alt="" an empty or zero-length alt string is not the same as a missing alt i realize it may be difficult to go through your code and look for images that are missing alt attributes, but, as with so many other web dev tasks, there's a bookmarklet to help you! see http://www.508compliant.com/tools.htm at the bottom finally, to get probably more info on the alt attribute than you thought you'd ever want, see Use of ALT texts in IMGs http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/alt/alt-text.html and don't forget to have a look at his "howlers" rudy ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
