Technical Question
Last year, I had been adding html ALT descriptions to any images I posted. Then I switched from Explorer to Mozilla Firefox and those ALT descriptions stopped showing up. Only I didn't realize until recently that it was my browser that was less accessible for people who need text descriptions of images. Does anyone know either a patch for Mozilla or a different way to tag images so that visually impaired people can get these descriptions regardless of what browser they use? Any help would be appreciated.
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Are you talking about them not showing up when you hover over them with the mouse, or are you talking about them not showing up when images aren't shown like for people using screen readers?
For the first one, you can include the TITLE attribute and set it to equal the alternative text. Like IMG SRC="something" ALT="something" TITLE="something"
If you meant the second, I'm not sure because it seems to work alright for me.
Eris is correct.
In order to be accessible for all browsers you must use both the alt and title tags - which have exactly the same effect.
I am afraid I frequently forget to use either. :-(
Thank you! If I understand correctly, all images for July should have rollover text descriptions. Except for my eyeball avatar, which I haven't figured out how to do yet.
You're welcome.
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