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Tue, 05 May 2009

Too inside a joke?
I spotted this on the wall of a government building where there are some folks doing work on accessibility. Much of 508 accessibility work (by no means all of it, but the most common tasks) is making sure that the information sighted folks receive is the same as the information those with vision problems receive. To that end, all graphics in web pages have to have an “alt” tag with a helpful caption — exactly as someone has carefully written a description of the cartoon before pinning it to the wall (you can click on the photo for a larger version, in case, you know, you have trouble reading the small text). Now in this case the written description (which screen reading software can’t read, because it’s a cartoon pinned to the wall and not electronic) seems perhaps less helpful…

Having a good idea who the primary audience of this web site is, I violate that rule — just in case you check…

(I did warn in the title that it was an inside joke.)

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Kitten Herder wrote

hee hee ... My apologies to the visually challenged, but I'm not ALTing all my IMG tags either.

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