Patrick Lauke wrote:
Marghanita da Cruz
While exploring the standards compliance/XHTML/HTML issue,
I was surprised by the variation in the display of Alt text.
On the small sample, the XHTML/HTML did not seem to make a
jot of difference.
The screen shots are available at
<http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/html-strawpolls.shtml>
I'm not quite sure what correlation you're trying to find here...the doctype an
author uses and the default behaviour of browsers should be two completely
separate things.
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Patrick,
In the strawpoll, I set out to guage the level of Browser/Platform support and
"compliance" for compliant XHTML and HTML4 webpages.
I thought XHTML/HTML may have been a variable in how webpages look and behave
in different browsers. The sample on the above page is by no means complete.
Along the way, I was surprised by the variation in how the Alt text is
displayed. My interest in the Alt text is in being able to provide visitors
(who are perhaps using a mobile phone) with fully functional text only webpages.
I am not sure if the variety of handling of Alt text effects accessibility via
screen readers etc.
Marghanita
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