272169 - alt text not displayed over img

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 25537

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Don Brutzman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

Putting the mouse over any images does not reveal alt text defined for the image.
example html excerpt:
<a href="http://www.web3d.org/x3d"><img src="images/x3d2-s.gif" width="154"
height="97" border="0" alt="to X3D home page"></a>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.load any page with alt text defined for an image
2.place mouse over image
3.look for popup display of alt text

Actual Results:  
no alt text seen

Expected Results:  
popup alt text

this is an important capability for testing web page accessibility.

Comment 1

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Use the title attribute instead.

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