- From: Maurice Carey <maurice@thymeonline.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:26:11 -0400
- To: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On 6/19/07 2:12 PM, "aurélien levy" <aurelien.levy@free.fr> wrote: > > Did you have any official stats about that ? First keep in mind that > actually a big majority of people doesn't care at all about validation > so i don't think that the empty alt just for validation is really more > used that a correct used of the empty alt. > Ask to users if they prefers to have page with complete URL or files > names every times the AT comes to an image or simply a page where this > useless information is skipped. > > In my mind, if the spec must change on the alt attribut is more to test > that images in a link don't have an empty alt because in that case it > make it totaly inaccessible. >> >> Yes, but the majority of cases in the wild @alt="" is not used because >> the image is semantically devoid of meaning, but rather because the >> author hasn't given any alternative. >> >> >> - Geoffrey Sneddon >> Before I discovered CSS I'd say about 99.3% of my <img> tags had empty alts because they were totally devoid of semantic meaning. Same thing goes for every designer I've ever worked with. It wouldn't surprise me if 90% of the alt-less images on the web were named "spacer.gif" -- :: thyme online ltd :: po box cb13650 nassau the bahamas :: website: http://www.thymeonline.com/ :: tel: 242 327-1864 fax: 242 377 1038
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