Philipp Lenssen wrote:
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
No, I'm not making this up, this is what http://www.w3.org/ says when
accessed with a text browser, or in any decent browser in no-images
mode:
"Tim Berners-Lee smiling 2003-12-31: Buckingham Palace today announced
that Queen Elizabeth II will make Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, a
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)."
Actually, I could see the point of title="Tim Berners-Lee smiling",
since it's not obvious to everyone who sees the image that it's a
smiling face, but alt="Tim Berners-Lee smiling" is of course nonsense.
He's not really smiling on that picture, either. An empty alt-text
would have been better.
I think that the 'alt' text should be "[ Tim Berners-Lee photo ]"
(or may be just the name?) since the picture carries only graphical
information with no distinct parts - it's a photo showing single
"item". So I think the alt text should be enclosed in [ ] to note
this is a distinct object and should include info (name or whatever,
but not empty) on the picture so text readers could download it for
preview in external application.
I agree with Barry Pearson which writes in another reply that the
'logndesc' would better describe what he/the photo looks like - "Tim
Berners-Lee smiling", though it is not necessary in this this case.
Including the name in the 'title' attribute is an optional extra,
too, but it could help graphical UA readers to get better that this
photo is of Time Berners-Lee.
--
Stanimir
