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Alternative Text, Text Equivalents, and Screen Tips
Alternative Text and Images
Make sure all pictures have alternative text. To add an alt text to a picture in FrontPage, right
click the picture and choose picture properties. Select the "general" tab at the top. Under "alternative
representation" in the middle of the dialog box type the information next to
"text:"
If an
image is used as a spacer, divider, or just has no relevant information, add
an alt text tag with "" as the text to display. This must be done in
html since FrontPage will not insert a tag for the picture if nothing is in
the alt "text:" box. To find it in the html code, select the picture then go
to the html view. The highlighted text will more or less be the attributes of
the picture. Insert the tag. For example alt="".
A more detailed example follows:
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<img border="0" src="../../images/MaroonSpacer.GIF"
width="100%" height="1">
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<img border="0" src="../../images/MaroonSpacer.GIF"
width="100%" height="1" alt="">
Alternative Text For Image Maps and Links
Links
Make
sure all links have a screen tip. The screen tip option is located at
the top right
corner of the link dialog box in
FrontPage.
Notes Concerning Screen tips and
alternative texts: Avoid using "click here," "to view," or "to go to" in a
screen tip. Instead, a screen tip should be used to indicate the nature of
the link such as, "more information about sea lions."
Image
Maps
Microsoft FrontPage automatically
creates client side image maps when you use the picture hotspot tool. To create
alt text for a picture hotspot, right click on the hotspot and choose picture
hotspot properties. Next choose the screen tip option just like a standard link.
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