Checkpoint A.02 focuses on providing a text equivalent for applets and programmatic objects. See the sections below for specific examples and techniques.

Applets and Programmatic Objects

The HTML APPLET tag is deprecated in HTML 4.0 (which means you should start using the new OBJECT element instead), but it is still in frequent use. If you are modifying an APPLET to make it more accessible, use the "alt" attribute to briefly describe the action or purpose. Also, if it will help the audience to understand what the APPLET is meant to convey, include a more detailed description in the content of the APPLET element (i.e. between the <APPLET> and </APPLET> tags)

Example

If your browser supports Applets, and if you have opted to let Java applets run on your system, then you will see some text randomly changing color and appearing in the Applet window. If either condition is not met, you should see the following text:

If you were using a Java-enabled browser, you would see the text "Hyper-G now features Java! As you can see here, can you see the blinking text?" dancing across the screen, instead of this paragraph.

Checkpoint (A) 02 Techniques

See the Checkpoint (A) 02 Techniques for adding text equivalents to applets and objects.

This page adopted from the the Curriculum for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Copyright © 2000 W3C (MIT, INRIA, Keio), All Rights Reserved.