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Posted by Neredbojias on 06/28/07 20:33
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:06:38 GMT dorayme scribed:
>> >> Here is a little snap of the bit I walk:
>> >>
>> >> <http://tinyurl.com/28q6r5>
>> >
>> > Oh deary me! Bergamot will notice the crummy alt text. I will change
>> > it right now.
>>
>> Unsure whether you changed it or not, but I would've put "Pic of
Botany
>> Bay" at most.
>
> I changed the arrow gif alt text and restrained myself when it
> got to about 3 chapters long... I assume that a screen reader
> will read more than what a visual browser will often display
> (they often cut spiels depending on the size of the pics). These
> alt texts are from the days when I was bad and slack and not
> given to helping folk. Selfish days when I would generate them
> with S&R and GREP, pinching things from the name of the img file,
> considering how I usually try to name the pics to mean something
> to me. But I now know that the web is not about me, it is about
> everyone else. I think that is very selfish of the world at large
> but what can I do? With a bit more care in greping, one could
> remove the .jpg and use the handle of the capital letters to put
> in spaces and start to make it a bit better. It is an amazing
> task facing me to go and fix up all the alt text on my sites to
> be first rate rather than generally 2nd rate. I should pay
> someone to do it considering it is such a boring little thing to
> do. Bergamot ought to offer me some discount for doing it!
Well, if you look at the institution of capitalism-flavoured democracy,
you can't help but see that it recognizes the import of self-interest
while attempting to universalize fairness and equality among the masses
near and far. I view alt text the same way: it has to please me first
before it pleases a bunch of strangers and aliens. While The Web may not
be one's personal manservant, I embrace it solely for the pleasure and
benefit it brings to *my* life. Were it an obnoxious edifice of
repugnant quality, I would avoid it like an overly-vociferous woman.
--
Neredbojias
Once I had a little dog
Who wagged its tail spritely.
But it walked by the harvestor
And now is shorter slightly.
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