On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 11:45:08PM +0200, J?rgen Hochwald wrote:
> I saw the problem on www.wetterarchiv.de (click on a date in the
> column 'die letzten meldungen' to get the list). Here all symbols have
> (lage) alt-tags to display additional information for the symbol. I
> find it a great manko that this information ist not displayed. Possibe
> the Internet Expoder is displaying this for impotant information
> besides it is not HTML-konform.
Your theory regarding IE is correct.
The intended purpose of the ALT tag is to provide a text-description
alternative for the displayed image. Using it for a "Pop-up Tool Tip"
is blatantly incorrect and not only shows ignorance on behalf of lazy
web developers, but also makes so many websites inaccessible to the many
web users who are partially sighted or those who must rely totally on
screen readers.
Cheers,
Gavin.
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