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 A Tip from the Trainers at
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Back to School Promo
for selected Office
2007 dates in September.
Register two students for the same course & date, take $50 off
the second student's course fee.
Call Full Circle for dates & courses:
610-594-9510.
(Not valid with training vouchers, PowerPacks, previously
booked courses or other discounts.)
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 The simple addition of the alt attribute,
which provides alternative text in place of an image on an XHTML page,
does more than make a web site more accessible. It also helps
sites appear more professional. The advantages of using the alt
attribute to make your site accessible to disabled people make the
effort very worthwhile!
In addition to giving our students the proper syntax for
using the alt
attribute in XHTML coding, this Trainer Tip also lists some of the
benefits of using alternate text in your web site design.
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For web
designers...
The use of
alternate text has a lot of advantages in web design methodology.
Whenever
and wherever you place a graphic into a web page, it is a good practice
to set alternate text for the graphic. This is beneficial for
numerous reasons:
- Users who have disabled the
image-viewing capability on their browsers can read the image name
or link destination.
- The alternate text appears as
a screen tip when the graphic is pointed to in a web browser.
- Users can read the image name
or description while an image loads.
- The alternate text is seen
whether the graphic appears or not.
- The software reader
applications for vision- and hearing-impaired users allow disabled
viewers to read the graphic.
- For reasons of user
accessibility, the XHTML Transitional specification requires the alt attribute
for your code to validate to the standard.
- Search engines include it in
text that is being searched as keywords.
The XHTML coding
for this attribute is as follows:
<img
src="images/training.jpg" alt="Full Circle Computing -
Training that fits" />
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Contact Full
Circle's instructors by email or by phone at
610-594-9510 if you'd like us to address a specific software challenge
in future Trainer Tip issues or if you'd like to share your own
"tip" with the Full Circle team. We look forward to hearing
from you.
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