124132 - Img ALT text doesn't show

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 25537

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Eyal Lior]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020406

<img alt="bla bla">
Text in ALT attribute doesn't show when mouse is over the image.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.goto slashdot
2.put mouse above one of the topic images
3.wait and see nothing happens

Actual Results:  duh

Expected Results:  ALT text should popup

http://w3c.org/

Comment 1

[Christopher Whitt]

This is a dupe of bug 25537.

The TITLE attribute of the image tag should be used for tooltips, and ALT for
accessibility, as per w3c specs.  That's the short version of why this won't be
fixed.  The long version is in comment 31
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25537#c31 in bug 25537.

Comment 2

[Gilles Durys]

Duping.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25537 ***

Comment 3

[timeless]

vrfy dupe