> I'll second the plea for more than just text inside ALT. One thing I've
> discovered users seem to expect is that an imagemap be replaced with a
> a menu when images are turned off.
Both of these capabilities are provided through the use of "figures"
in the proposed HTML 3.0 specification, which you can see at:
http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html/Contents.html
One of the examples given in the section on figures is:
Company home page:
<FIG SRC="mainmenu.gif">
<H1>Access HP from Hewlett Packard</H1>
<P>Select between:
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="guide.html" SHAPE="rect 30,200,60,16">Access Guide</A>
<LI><A HREF="about.html" SHAPE="rect 100,200,50,16">About HP</A>
<LI><A HREF="guide.html" SHAPE="rect 160,200,30,16">News</A>
<LI><A HREF="guide.html" SHAPE="rect 200,200,50,16">Products</A>
<LI><A HREF="guide.html" SHAPE="rect 260,200,80,16">Worldwide Contacts</A>
</UL>
</FIG>
Notice the nice browser-independent way of specifying client-side imagemaps,
and the ability to use HTML as "alternate" text by placing it between the
<FIG> and </FIG> tags. (It's much better than the old <IMG> tag.)
For more information on the proposed <FIG> tag, see:
http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html/figures.html
Gerald
-- Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@cs.ualberta.ca> http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~gerald/