On Sun, 4 May 2008 21:38:54 +0100 "Stuart Lawler" stuart.lawler@visionline.ie wrote:
Dear Ivan,
Many thanks for your help.
I'm not quite sure what lines to remove, or at least what to delete.
To remove the link change
print '<h1><a href="'. check_url($base_path) .'" title="'. $site_title .'">';
to
print '<h1>';
and
print $site_html .'</a></h1>';
to
print $site_html .'</h1>';
to change the alt/title of the logo if you're not willing to use the site title change
print '<img src="'. check_url($logo) .'" alt="'. $site_title .'" id="logo" />';
to
print '<img src="'. check_url($logo) .'" alt="somethingofyourchoice" id="logo" />';
if you want to use the site_title change in in the Admin pages
Finally, to answer your question, descriptive alt titles are always good for screen readers. The title is important too, but for images a separate, more descriptive alt title is prefered.
Let me explain more clearly, I already add alt tags everywhere the image should convey content and it is not there for layout or aesthetic reasons.
You may have <a href="link" title="something1"><img src="path" alt="something2" title="something3"></a>
If you're not blind you're going to see the image and just if you pass the mouse over the image you'd see the title. That may be great for Search Engines too... but I can immagine that if you're blind you've no choice other than listening/feeling something1, something2, something3... that may be a bit obnoxious if all you need is *one* description. Or maybe current software will "show" just title over alt or alt over title etc... or just the link title...
Still I think choices here can make the experience more enjoyable for blind people. I'd just use the image alt that should describe the image and since there is no text for not blind people it means that the image is enough descriptive of where the link will take, adding the title to the link is going to annoy people that have to "listen" to the page or read it through braille. But... I never had to use the web in such a way so I may be wrong. What is the "right" choice?
Then you said you were going to kill the link around the logo. Why? I'd say it is a navigational help, but maybe it is just an hindrance if you've to read the page differently.