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Pop-Up

After a little bit of playing, I think I've found a way to provide ALT text for an image, without getting those pop-up tool-tip sort of things that Netscape Communicator gives you when you mouse over an image with ALT text. If you give the IMG tag two ALT attributes where the first one is blank, and the second one contains the real ALT text for the image, Communicator picks up the first ALT and won't display the pop-up. When I tested this in Lynx, however, the blank ALT was ignored, and real text was displayed. In Communicator, the red image shouldn't display a pop-up, and the blue image should. If you check the page out in Lynx you should see ALT text for both images.

From what I've seen of aural interpreters and other tools to provide accessibility to the handicapped, they tend to sit on top of a text-based browser such as Lynx. So I would think that as long as the ALT text shows up in a text-based browser you're OK.

I want to state for the record that doing something like this is technically writing incorrect HTML, and may not even work in all versions of any text-based browser. As with everything else, test it out if you think it may be an issue. Damn, I feel so dirty ...

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