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1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 16-Jul-2018 04:24:02 EDT iona 🐝

   @hollyamory What's the difference? :o

   1. Holly (hollyamory@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jul-2018 04:27:03 EDT Holly

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      @iona
      They're HTML tags. Whatever's in the <alt> tag is what the screenreader will read out. Since some web browsers (and apps like Mastodon clients) are now offering alt-text as hover-over text, I guess people are thinking that whatever they see when they hover over an image is what a screenreader will read, but that's not the case. Has to be in the alt-text.

      1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 16-Jul-2018 04:28:49 EDT iona 🐝

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         @hollyamory Thank you! That's what got me muddled-up. Normally <title> is what comes up in the hover-over text when I write an HTML page and display it (in Opera at least).

         If I do

         <img src="cat.jpg" alt="foo" title="bar" />

         then "bar" is what shows as a tooltip, but "foo" is what screenreaders will read out, right?