Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 06/01/07 07:02

Scripsit cwdjrxyz:

> Perhaps a working example will also help.

So why don't you give one?

> Go to the page http://winefaq.hostexcellence.com/ . Note the image at the
> bottom and
> the alt that goes with it.

The alt text repeats the image caption. While that might be the least of
evils in some cases, it's hardly a working example of anything.

> Click ENTER to go to the next page

So you referred us to a pointless splash page. How about a working example
of something?

> with links buttons and see how I wrote the alt for the buttons.

They are idiotic. Metaphorically speaking. Apologies to idiots; they cannot
help being idiots, but you could stop writing idiotic alt texts.

"go button 1a" helps nobody. It's even more foolish than it looks like,
since it's a link, so its alt text is effectively the link text. How useful
do you expect such link texts to be?

You could simply change the questions themselves into links and leave out
the stupid buttons.
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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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