Correct use of alt/title attributes

[tomjeatt]

I have quite a specific question related to my job, and although I think I've come up with the right answer I thought I'd double check with the hive-mind.

I have to add affiliated society logos to a some of our journal pages. The logo won't be a link (if the society has a website there will be a link to it underneath the image), there won't be a title or any text associated with the image and - because the logos have to be a uniform width - in some cases the text in the logo won't necessarily be legible. Some of the logos are also a bit on the abstract side and won't necessarily contain the name of the society. All of this is outside of my control by the way - all I can do is decide on the content of the alt/title attributes and make sure that the width and height attributes are used.

So after a bit of thought - and using this site as an example - I think the correct usage will be:


<img src="/forum/images/misc/mawd_logo.png" width="466" height="94" alt="MA Web Design &amp; Content planning logo" title="MA Web Design &amp; Content planning" />Any thoughts?

[David]

That would be my approach. Essentially, you are adding further information for both sighted and non-sighted users. In your example, the non-sighted users get a description of the image, i.e. that it is a logo for a particular organisation and that goes in the alt attribute while sighted users, who can see that it is a logo simply need the name of the organisation because it may not be clear or legible from the graphic.

[tomjeatt]

That was my reasoning too - always nice to get a second opinion, thanks David!