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Re: What now ALT?

From: Rimantas Liubertas <rimantas@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:13:17 +0300
Message-ID: <5ccfb3340710040813r68e4c851m808705113b181dfb@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>
Cc: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, "advocate group" <list@html4all.org>

>  > There ARE cases when alt attribute would do more harm and hurt accessibilty
>  > more than lack of it, and spec would allow you to omit it in that case.
>
> Can you give instances of these ?

http://www.hookmitchell.com/ - how NOT to use @alt. Enjoy.
http://www.excelcon.com/ - funny, proper alt on logo (should logo have
alt text like this?) and spacer.gif for navigation. Other spacer.gif's
have same alt too, you say
this helps accessibility?

Pretty much any purely decorative image, or image used for layout (in best case
first belong to CSS, second should not exist at all). There may be few
other cases,
but I won't go into this.

Regards,
Rimantas
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