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13 Dec 11
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How about an artist’s site? Not just any artist, but one of those famous dead artists. A site with educational merit. Should alt text and/or long descriptions be used. I would have to say yes, in this case. Even though the site would be showcasing images of paintings, describing these paintings would be important. These painting have educational value and to retain that value, it must be equally shared. Imagine for a moment that you aren’t sighted and you’re screenreading a web page on a website about Vincent Van Gogh. On this page, let’s say the content speaks of his background, upbringing, career, etc. and also showcases some of his better known works. Since this site has some education/informative content, it becomes more that a mere showcase. If the images cannot be seen, I’d have to guess the value and understanding normally delivered visually, will still need to be delivered aurally to the non-sighted.
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18 May 09
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02 Jun 08
Maggie Wolfe RileyWhen should you supply alt text in the alt attribute. It's probably less than you may think
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25 Jan 08
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16 Feb 06
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14 Feb 06
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12 Feb 06
David CorkingThoughtful article with content author guidelines on accessible use of alt, title and longdesc attributes for images.
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Should the title attribute be used or shouldn’t it? I feel it shouldn’t duplicate the alt text unless really helpful in some way to do so. If the information is that important, though, it should perhaps be handled by main text content. Opening in a new window, if applicable, could be the title, while the alt handles the link text. Not all browsers display alt text on hover, but to add a redundancy just to make that available so one can see the same text as the alt text if the link if the image isn’t available doesn’t seem very worthwhile.
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