Posted by William Tasso on 12/22/48 11:24

Writing in news:alt.www.webmaster,alt.html
From the safety of the No thank you cafeteria
Charles Sweeney <me@charlessweeney.com> said:

> ...
> myself doing normal surfing
> with images off, and chancing upon something ...

Ahh - in that circumstance I'd expect the visitor to be using a UA that
serves the purpose. IIRC correctly your UA of choice is FireFox - a UA
which displays no indication of missing images. Other UAs (probably not
all) present the alt text in a manner which makes it obvious that an image
has not been displayed.

The fact that FireFox choses not to is neither the fault of the standards
or the webmaster - in fact, as a visitor/surfer I personally prefer the
treatment FireFox gives to missing images - I wish the browser in my phone
would do the same.

> ...
> With images off the "title" attribute does not display unless one hovers
> over the place where the image is. But one does not know that there is
> any image there in the first place, so you can't hover over something
> that you don't know is there!!!

That is normal behaviour for the title atribute on any element I believe -
not just images.

> You still get the alt text looking out of sync because it is not telling
> you that it is the alt text for an image.

Perhaps you would consider using a browser more suitable for your needs
when surfing with images off.

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William Tasso

** Business as usual

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