On 13/11/2010 01:23, cat soul wrote:
Right..I noticed this while playing around, and I wondered whether it represents an opportunity by making sure that it has some desired formatting, or whether those who rely upon alt information just want normal, smallish text.
those who rely on alt would roughly fall into two categories: users of assistive technology (blind/partially sighted) and those users who knowingly turned off image loading. for the first group, visual formatting will be irrelevant - just make sure the image is contained in the most logical parent block - so if the image was, for instance, a heading (not doing any css image replacement, just putting straight images in the markup), then obviously the entire image would be wrapped in the appropriate heading element. for the latter group, again the alt will be usually formatted the same way as text in the same place would be, so the previous also applies (e.g. if it's a heading, wrap it as a heading). you could, if you wanted to, go beyond that and explicitly style text properties on the img element in your css, but i don't think there's any real need for it provided that the alt makes sense in context.
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