Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
David Dixon wrote:
I would probably revise the img tag itself to read something like:
<img src="/images/accessibility.jpg" width="100" height="89" alt="The
imagery of a person on a wheelchair is generally considered a symbol
for accessibility" title="An image of a wheelchair: the symbol for
accessibility">
Sorry, but: for heaven's sake. Can you please demonstrate how that is
*useful to any real user* within the context of the page? If this was
a page outlining different symbols, fine...but here, it's certainly
not needed.
My question at this point is, not if they are needed or not, rather
would that hurt the usability for users with disabilities?
As I said, why stop there? Why not explain as well what colours were
used to represent this symbol, etc?
While I sure do not want to implement the longdesc for the reasons we
all might know here, would it be a semantically correct and a usable
option to link the images to an extra page, adding in the link a title
explaining the page destination, and there providing the details as I
would have edited in a longdesc?
P
Sidenote: I am concerned about the possibility of using alt tag
attributes and other techniques as I mentioned above for SEO purposes,
but in any case SEO would make sence to us, if it could hurt in any way
the accessibility and usability of our site.
John
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