[Nfb-web] alt vs title
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 14 15:42:49 UTC 2009
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
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