Pilmore, Lee

Proper Use of ALT and TITLE Attributes

Filed under Accessibility, Markup on May 11th, 2007 |

From fadtastic.

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.

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. - Roger Johansson

As Roger notes, we should be including accessibility features when initially creating web pages rather than going back to add it later.