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BeTheBall
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Accessibility question - 1/20/2005 18:11:18
I am designing a site that is essentially an online guide for handling certain common questions from our customers. We have several visually-impaired users that will be using the site. What I am wondering is this:
Is it possible to use alt tags for images, but make it so the alt text is only readable by screen readers, not visible to regular users? That probably sounds like a bizarre request, but I also have a mouseover script (CSS and Javascript) that renders the alt text as a tooltip for regular users, but unfortunately, the screen reader we use (JAWS) doesn't pick it up.
Another option would be to find another tooltip script that will be picked up by JAWS. Anyone know of any? The key being I want to customize the background and text color of the tooltip, plus I want the tip to stay present as long as the cursor is over the image, not disappear after a few seconds as the tooltip generated by the alt tag does.
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RE: Accessibility question - 1/21/2005 0:26:45
use the title attribute
e.g.
[code]<image src="sheep.gif" alt ="sheep" title ="tooltip about sheep">
[ /code]
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BeTheBall
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RE: Accessibility question - 1/21/2005 11:28:11
How customizable is the title tag? And doesn't it also disappear after a few seconds? The problem is that some of the titles will be a little lengthy and I want to be sure an average reader is able to read it all before it vanishes.
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RE: Accessibility question - 1/21/2005 11:41:39
not sure but maybe a hidden layer that has it's visibility changed to visible might be the answer - can't remember if/where i have a suitable link but i'm sure someone else has
I'm not sure though how it would work accessiblity wise... would probably be ok if it was purely css driven :)
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