28th January 2009, 04:39 PM
I seem to be having much the same trouble. The menu appears on mouseover, but then disappears when I mouse onto an option...
"alt" tags used to be descriptive because early browsers had options to turn off graphics for faster surfing (anyone remember Lynx?). I would have thought that it would have been more important to have descriptive alt tags for menu GIFS, otherwise navigation is a nightmare. I'm sure visually impared people appreciate image description: have you ever watched a DVD with the 'Audio Description' option selected; it adds a spoken word description of the scene onto the soundtrack, which sometimes has to go really fast to keep up with the action...
"alt" tags used to be descriptive because early browsers had options to turn off graphics for faster surfing (anyone remember Lynx?). I would have thought that it would have been more important to have descriptive alt tags for menu GIFS, otherwise navigation is a nightmare. I'm sure visually impared people appreciate image description: have you ever watched a DVD with the 'Audio Description' option selected; it adds a spoken word description of the scene onto the soundtrack, which sometimes has to go really fast to keep up with the action...