[bcab] Re: Terminology

You can force the keyboard to produce alt-tag text as well, but it takes some scripting. I've used an old script confusingly called onfocus tooltips to achieve this effect. Pity Microsoft haven't thought of it. 

Vince.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nigel" <stoppard@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Hi Karina ,
No Tool tips and alt tags are completely different things. I think tool tips is what a sighted user sees when they move the mouse pointer over an icon and leave it for a second or two. It's black text in a yellow box that appears that gives a short description of the icon. Alt tags are used to label graphics in web pages so that screen readers can read them and hopefully give a useful description of what the image is. 

Nigel
Will computers ever become easy to use?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Karina Gregory" <Karina.Gregory@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 5:58 PM
Subject: [bcab] Terminology



Hi all,

Are tooltips the same as ALT tags?

Thanks.

Karina




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