Re: alt text

Neredbojias wrote:
The last several months I've been trying to include more reasonable alt text in my images to improve accessibility. The other day I uploaded a new page and forgot to upload the matching folder containing the page's images. Here's what I got in Firefox (look just below the line near the top which says "Featured Images - Interesting Chairs"):

http://www.neredbojias.com/tsttst/capalt1b.jpg

Here's how it looked in Safari 3.0.4 for Windows:

http://www.neredbojias.com/tsttst/capalt2b.jpg

Don't they know how to do it right, or am I missing something? Opera and IE7 were okay.

"User agents must render alternate text when they cannot support images, they cannot support a certain image type or when they are configured not to display images."

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#h-13.2

None of these is the case. That's not to say that the browsers couldn't handle the case of a missing file in the same way, but the spec doesn't call for it.

However: are you setting width and height for your images? If so, are you sure that the ALT text isn't just being cut off because the "missing image" icon isn't already filling up the space you made available?
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