From: Andor Demarteau <ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Alt= In Images
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 21:39:56 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0109082137490.27801-100000@abeel.students.cs.uu.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010908193241.VHWD557.femail15.sdc1.sfba.home.com@eklhad>
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> Star Trek trivia,
Geeek! ;)
> But if it's a clickable icon, a link or submit button,
> put an alt= description in.
> If you don't, my browser is a little smarter than lynx.
> It looks at the file name you are linking to and shows me the tail of that.
Okay, I've lynx in advanced mode and therefor get the ulr at the bottom of
the screen.
Works simular, but different.
I've also set links to display the image-filename instead of the stupid
[inline] thing.
Karl, mail your suggestion to the lynx-team. Maybe they can put it in as an
extra feature.
Btw, what browser do you use?
> If an image links to this.that.com/foo/bar/shopping.html,
> then I'll read {shopping}
> I won't even know it was an image,
> but I'll realize there is a link there, and I have a good idea what it's for.
> Course this strategy doesn't always help.
> Sometimes the linked file ends in index.html,
> and then all I get is {index}
> Maybe in this case I should back up and present the directory name??
> Well it wouldn't be necessary if everyone used alt= on linking images.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to make your site accessible to all.
> We do appreciate it.
> Karl
>
>
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