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		pizza on March 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort Hover over an image with an alt-text attribute, and a tooltip with the alt-text pops up. All of the xkcd comics have alt-text, and it's a good practice in general, for accessibility software.

ufo on March 19, 2013 [–]

Actually, as other people mentioned, the real attribute that XKCD is using is "title":

    <img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/aspect_ratio.png" title="I'm always disappointed when 'Anamorphic Widescreen' doesn't refer to a widescreen Animorphs movie." alt="Aspect Ratio">

pizza on March 19, 2013 | [–]

Indeed!

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