Missing TITLE tag for most (all?) images.

Karl DeBisschop karl at debisschop.net
Mon Jul 21 12:50:39 CEST 2003


On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 05:57, Randal, Phil wrote:
> The easiest workaround is to install popupalt.xpi into
> Mozilla / Firebird / Netscape 7.x.
> 
> http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_popupalt.html.en
> 

Of course, that doesn't help if you support the idea that misuse of the
alt tag subverts their uility for those who need the accessibility help.

--
Karl

> Cheers,
> 
> Phil
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> Phil Randal
> Network Engineer
> Herefordshire Council
> Hereford, UK 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Markus Gaugusch [mailto:markus at gaugusch.at]
> > Sent: 21 July 2003 10:45
> > To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-devel] Missing TITLE tag for most (all?) images.
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I'm using Mozilla and it does not display popup information 
> > for images, if
> > there is no TITLE tag present. The ALT tag is (according to mozilla
> > developers) the wrong place for popup information, although 
> > still widely
> > used.
> > Unfortunately lots of information is contained in the ALT tag 
> > and it would
> > be sad if it is lost for mozilla users. The solution is to 
> > put the text
> > into both tags (ALT and TITLE), because other browsers 
> > support only ALT.
> > 
> > Markus
> > PS: please CC: me for answers, I'm not on the list. Thanks!
> > 
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