Posted by Dan on 06/01/07 16:10

On Jun 1, 4:49 am, Lsimmons5 <i...@lookit-up.com> wrote:
> to grips with. I can now see the function of the ALT attribute -- but
> it seems to me that if you have a row of buttons linking to different
> pages on a website, then every button and gif/jpeg should have its own
> separate description (and that would be a very time consuming
> procedure). I refer you to a simple website I am currently
> constructing that has, at the moment, numerous validation errors and
> has the button links that I referred to:www.pleaselookitup.com

Navigation-link buttons are among the things where it's most important
to have proper ALT attributes, but also among the easiest to do;
simply use ALT text that corresponds to the text on the button. If
the button says "HOME", use alt="HOME" on it. The idea is that the
image can be replaced with the text (as on a text-only browser, or an
audio screen reader) and provide the same navigation information.

--
Dan

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