how about using a space between letters instead of a 'stop'. eg A M P ? lisa
-----Original Message----- From: Web Usability [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 2:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] alt or title... >From my observations the inclusion of a full stop at the end of an alt tag is not really necessary. However, if you use initials in the alt that you want be read out as separate letters then it is essential to put a full stop after each letter. EG alt="AMP newsletter" will be read as amp newsletter (as in electricity). You should write it thus - alt="A.M.P. newsletter" BTW screen readers will even try to make words out of nonsense grouping of letter such as GST Roger -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Kirkwood | MOTIVE Sent: Thursday, 9 December 2004 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] alt or title... Does anyone have a (ideally substantiated) approach to use us of the fullstop/period in alt tags and/or title tags? e.g. alt="My goldfish" title="On holiday in Spain", v.s alt="My goldfish." title="On holiday in Spain." Seem to recall mention of screen-readers requiring the punctuation in the same way that an in-text list of hrefs require a non-linked separating character. All conditional considerations welcome... -- Andy Kirkwood | Creative Director MOTIVE | web.design.integrity http://www.motive.co.nz/ ph: +64 4 3 800 800 fx: +64 4 970 9693 mob: 021 369 693 93 Rintoul St, Newtown PO Box 7150, Wellington South, New Zealand ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
