Posted by dorayme on 06/02/07 15:42

In article <5cd7snF31176dU1@mid.individual.net>,
Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> No, not really. Try that using a browser that can navigate just to
> links. Opera maintains a separate link list, as do many screen readers.
> If the alt text is all the same, it is useless out of context. You might
> as well just say "click here".

OK. I was not that aware of the likely use of pages that just
show links in a context such as that particular page. Had I been,
I would not have said "entirely appropriate". I can't quite think
why anyone would just go to a page of links in the example I was
covering, but there may be practical reasons? It is a nice point
nevertheless, so thanks.

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dorayme

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