ALT or TITLE ?

ALT or TITLE ?

An interesting way to re-look at the use of ALT and TITLE attributes. Not only proper understanding of these attributes helps a lot in the efficient web standard practice but saves lot of time if followed perfectly as a customary practice, than "going back to add it later" as it's viewed by Ted Goas.

• "It’s important for web designers and developers to know how to write good ALT and TITLE attributes. Practices like these should be employed into each web page element as it’s created. As Roger notes, we should be including accessibility features when initially creating web pages rather than going back to add it later."
• "Alternate text is not meant to be used as a tool tip, or more specifically, to provide additional information about an image. The title attribute, on the other hand, is meant to provide additional information about an element…. Many people seem to confuse these two attributes…"
  

It's feasible to approach drafting accessibility assessment kind of report with the proper usage of ALT and TITLE attributes. Minor confusion between these may yield to faulty AA or AAA report.

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