Posted by dorayme on 10/26/06 05:11

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<1161836752.933477.192800@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
"entrepreneur" <mailtumengyu@gmail.com> wrote:

> The ALT attribute is designed to be an alternative text description for
> images. ALT text displays before the image is loaded (if it's loaded at
> all) in the major browsers and instead of the image in text-based
> browsers like Lynx. ALT is a required element for images and can only
> be used for image tags because its specific purpose is to describe
> images.

You wrote a little essay. Fine by me. About the above. You need
to distinguish clearly between at least two possibilities for the
alt text.

(1) It is instead of the image

(2) It is a description of the image

It is easy to see how these seemingly quite distinct meanings can
be confused. Sometimes some alt text can be both, sometimes not.
Discuss this in your essay.

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dorayme

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