Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 10/31/07 11:58

Jib wrote:

> My site caters to different languages

That would be easier to believe if you had posted a URL.

> and the site has directories
> segregated by country,

I thought you mentioned languages. Please do not try to get any further in
multilingualism before you understand the difference between language and
country.

> however some of my images are in shared folders.

That's really irrelevant to anything but your web site management, and it
has nothing particular to do with multilingualism or alt texts.

> I can't (or shouldn't) use 'one language fit all' approach
> for my alt tags

Just as you shouldn't use 'one language fit all' approach for your textual
content. The alt text (called "alt tag" by people who don't know the basic
concepts of markup) _is_ logically part of textual content, though you need
to write it as an attribute value, due to an old mistake in the design of
HTML.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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