I am aware of that alt tags will not show tooltips taking Mozilla & Firefox. Understanding that the title tag Works with those 2, plus IE. In the event that I’m using subject tags, is them bad design to drop the alt tags.. or does this cause other issues Should i need both
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Jayell
It is wise to use alt tags pertaining to images. Screen book lovers need them. I use championships for things including background images (css) and also sometimes DIVS. I dont think Concerning usedthem on pictures before.
Without a doubt, always specify your alt attribute intended for images. Even when the image does not create the content, nevertheless specify it (alt=" " ).
Likewise, do not rely on tooltips for functionalty with regard to both accessibility and also browser compatibility.
I did some investigating into this some time back. The planned uses are since follows:
alt:: renewable text for an image, should be used for each meaningful image, apply empty (alt=" " ) tags at presentational images. Start using a meaningful description.
concept:: should display when tooltip, for example to indicate what goes on if you click on the image.
The first problem:
IE platforms alt tags when tooltips. Basically since IE is childish, the important factor to remember is make sure you still use the tags although tooltips glance bad sometimes, alt text is not optional.
Your second:
DanOliver stated screenreaders read alt text message. Well that’s what it feels right for them to do, but in the genuine world they dont specifically. A good filter reader will go through the alt word and ignore the title text. However inside the screenreader specification them basically says " reading alt or even title text is approximately the designer", so it’s quite possible that the screenreader would go through title text also.
So as an example: img src=" whichever. gif" alt=" a picture with the grand canyon" title=" a picture with the grand canyon"
MIGHT read: a picture with the grand canyon a picture belonging to the grand canyon.
For that reason I use alt tags with every image, and I under no circumstances use title tags in any respect.