Posted by dorayme on 06/02/07 08:12

In article
<1180769894.441792.150900@q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
cwdjrxyz <spamtrap2@cwdjr.info> wrote:

> On Jun 1, 11:33 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > In article
> > <1180687766.468491.79...@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
> >
> > Lsimmons5 <i...@lookit-up.com> wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > No, this is not correct in all circumstances. If, whether for
> > good reasons or bad, you have buttons that go to different pages
> > as exampled in cwdjrxyz's page, it is entirely appropriate to
> > have exactly the same alt text to help the user who sees no
> > image. I remind you that in his example, ...
>
> Just a little background.

You will realise, I hope, that I was not meaning in my post to in
any way criticise you, just to discuss and make some general
remarks about alt text. Your example was handy to make one
particular point about alt text and that is that there is no
formula for doing them and general guidelines almost always have
exceptions.

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dorayme

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