Re: alt text

On 30 Mar 2008, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Ages ago, about the time I embarked on a course of alt text pills to
improve author implementations, I made a test page to see how
different browsers rendered things.

<http://tinyurl.com/34z6kf>

I thought I would wheel it out here.

Also, perhaps I should mention, but please send $10, you can order the
formula for making your own alt-text pills from me.

Hmm, interesting. Unfortunately, it made me thirsty and now I'm too drunk
to understand it.

Seriously, what's the point and how does it relate to my particular lament?

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