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Is this really an 'alt text' what the author of this page is referring to? Isn't 'alt text' a piece of text that shows when the image is unavailable?
by ardrabczyk 14y ago
Is this really an 'alt text' what the author of this page is referring to? Isn't 'alt text' a piece of text that shows when the image is unavailable?
- pizza 14y agoHover over an image with an alt-text attribute, and a tooltip with the alt-text pops up. All of the xkcd comics have alt-text, and it's a good practice in general, for accessibility software.
- ufo 14y agoActually, as other people mentioned, the real attribute that XKCD is using is "title": <img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/aspect_ratio.png" title="I'm always disappointed when 'Anamorphic Widescreen' doesn't refer to a widescreen Animorphs movie." alt="Aspect Ratio">
- pizza 14y agoIndeed!
- gkoberger 14y agoTechnically it's a "title", however everyone refers to the XKCD text shown on hover as "alt text". (See http://m.xkcd.com/ http://m.xkcd.com/, even xkcd calls it that).