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The ALT problem and Handicap Guidelines

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:43 pm
by jack_indigo
You may have read this checklist if you're an XHTML Strict person:

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html

Well, one of the problems I have is the ALT parameter on images. In some web browsers, the ALT is interpreted as a tooltip, which completely sucks because let's say you don't want to display tooltips on your images. So, for now, I've been doing ALT="". So, I'm in a Catch-22 here. What do you recommend?

Re: The ALT problem and Handicap Guidelines

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:21 am
by Sindarin
Yes Internet Explorer shows a blank tooltip if the alt attribute is blank. Use a blank title attribute like this,

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<img src="myimage.png" alt="" title="" />
then the tooltip won't show up at all.

Funny how a 1x1 spacer.gif image should be accessible to visually impaired people while other people won't see it at all. Maybe it's time to revise these screen readers... :D