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Spring Into HTML and CSS
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Spring Into HTML and CSS

by Molly E. Holzschlag
April 2005
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
6h 33m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Providing Alternative Text

Some people surf the Web without images turned on. Sounds strange in today's world of high bandwidth, but some people still don't have high-speed access, so images can slow down their access to your page's content, and they will disable the images. Another important concern is that many people visiting the Web are visually impaired or blind. In all these cases, it's helpful to provide some clues to your visitor as to what the image represents.

This is done using alternative text, which uses the alt attribute and a description, as shown in Example 3-2.

Example 3-2. Adding an alt text description

<img src="photo.jpg" width="250" height="188" alt="photograph of a delicious Vietnamese noodle dish from restaurant Pho 88" /> ...

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