[Nfb-web] alt vs title

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis]

On 13/4/09 01:39, Lloyd Rasmussen wrote:
> In Internet Explorer, and
> presumably other graphical browsers, alt text is like a tooltip that pops up
> when the mouse hovers over a graphic which has this text.

This assumption is generally wrong. Firefox, Safari, and Opera don't do 
this.

> I don't know
> where the tooltip is positioned on the browser screen, but it is not in line
> with surrounding text in HTML order, as we see it in the browse buffer
> (virtual cursor) of a screen reader.

In Internet Explorer, it's typically some text in a yellow box that 
partially overlays the image.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis